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Zur Kur an den Nil
Die Ägyptenreise von Max und Otto Meyerhof im Winter 1900/01
„Zur Kur an den Nil“ is the commented edition of a travelogue from winter 1900/01 written by the German-Jewish Ophthalmologist and Orientalist Max Meyerhof (1874-1945). It was...
Karabalgasun – Stadt der Nomaden
Die archäologischen Ausgrabungen in der frühuigurischen Hauptstadt 2009–2011
Archaeological research on settlemets of late nomadic tribes in eastern Central Asia is just at the beginning. Scientific research carried out in the Uygur capital Karabalgasun by...
Versteckt – Verirrt – Verschollen
Reisen und Nicht-Wissen
Since the Early Modern Period, traveling becomes a central strategy enhancing knowledge. At the same time, travel seems to deliver a gateway for the incalculable and unfathomable....
Satire und Kontext
Gesellschaftskritik in den Dramen des ägyptischen Autors Ali Salem
This study examines the dramas of the Egyptian writer Ali Salem (b. 1936). In addition to determining Salem’s position in literary history and outlining developments in modern...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Schweizer Skizzenbuch
In 1842 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy had the intention of travelling to the Alps again – this time along with his wife Cécile, who did not know Switzerland. When an invitation from...
Das alte Vietnam
Auf den Spuren des Abbé Charles-Thomas de Saint-Phalle in Tunkin
In 1779, the German scholar Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard translated the French book “Histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Tonquin” of Jérôme Richard, which had been...
Die Mendelssohns in Italien
Ausstellung des Mendelssohn-Archivs der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
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In den Süden hatte es die Deutschen schon immer gezogen; aber nach den napoleonischen Kriegen setzte eine neue,...