22.10.2020 "How more than 2500 Arabic Manuscripts ended up in the German province". Lecture by Albrecht Fuess for the Séminaire Qira'ât

"The late 18th and early 19th century presented an age of exploration in German Academia. Scholars traveled the world in order to explore quite often financed by local princes in Germany who wanted to excel with their collections and outshine their neighboring principalities. 
Inspired by his famous study colleague Alexander von Humboldt and his travels to South America, the scholar Ulrich Jasper Seetzen from the town of Jever convinced the prince of Gotha in Thuringia to provide him with funds to travel to Arabia and buy objects and manuscripts. 
The presentation especially concentrates on the years Seetzen spent in Cairo and gives an overview of the still understudied Gotha collection which hosts a lot of research possibilities for 
international scholars." You can view the full lecture here