Zur Kur an den Nil

Die Ägyptenreise von Max und Otto Meyerhof im Winter 1900/01

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„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 because of health reasons that Meyerhof, together with his younger relative Otto Meyerhof …

Karabalgasun – Stadt der Nomaden

Die archäologischen Ausgrabungen in der frühuigurischen Hauptstadt 2009–2011

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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 the Mongolian-German-Orkhon-Expedition 2009-2011 has offered an excellent contribution to further understanding the process …

Versteckt – Verirrt – Verschollen

Reisen und Nicht-Wissen

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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. Contributions to this addition seek to explore how this type of non-knowledge appears …

Satire und Kontext

Gesellschaftskritik in den Dramen des ägyptischen Autors Ali Salem

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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 Arab theatre, the contemporary dramatist’s plays written in Egyptian dialect are given detailed …

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Schweizer Skizzenbuch

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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 the Swiss music society to participate in the music …

Das alte Vietnam

Auf den Spuren des Abbé Charles-Thomas de Saint-Phalle in Tunkin

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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 printed the year before in Paris. The Abbé Richard’s book was itself a published …

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, verstärkte Reisewelle ein, die immer weitere Kreise erfaßte – zu ihnen gehörten auch die Berliner Mendelssohns. Studien- und Bildungszwecke waren meist die …