Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XII S., 1 Bl., 464 S. 8°. Mod. Pp. mit Rückenschild.

Bemerkung:

Erste Ausgabe dieser Bearbeitung und Übersetzung aus dem "Tableau Historique de l?Orient" von Ignatius Mouradgea d?Ohsson des bedeutenden deutschen Orientalisten Friedrich Theodor Rinck (1770 - 1811). Vorliegend ist somit ein eigentlich eigenständiges Werk, welches die iranische Mythologie und früheste persische Geschichte auf Grundlage des Schahnameh (Schahname) des Abu l-Qasim Firdausi behandelt. Hier werden vorallem die mythologoschen Dynastien der Pischdadiyan und Kayaniden behandelt. - "Ignatius Mouradgea d`Ohsson (31 July 1740 ? 27 August 1807) was an Armenian orientalist, historian and diplomat in Swedish service. In 1768 he was supreme interpreter, in its subsequent elevation to the Swedish nobility, he participated in the French-sounding names d`Ohsson. Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d?Ohsson, author of a famous History of the Mongols, was his son. He lived many years in France. ... After a long sojourn in Constantinople, d`Ohsson returned to Paris, where he founded hardly any traces of his large property. Even the buildings where he had deposited the copies of his work, and the plates, drawings &c., had been destroyed and plundered. Without suffering himself to be depressed by these misfortunes, he devised a still greater plan, which had in view a historical picture of the whole East, and became entirely absorbed in his desire to execute it. In 1804 he had completely two volumes of his "Tableau Historique de l?Orient," when the war with Sweden made him apprehensive of another interruption. He asked and received permission from his government to retire to the country. Here he continued to occupy himself on his undertaking during three years, and gave the fruit of fifty-four years` labour to the world, in a work which contains, in three separate divisions, a complete view of the Ottoman Empire. These three divisions have the separate titles, "Tableau Historique de l?Orient," a history of all nations under the Ottoman government: "Tableau Général de l?Empire Othoman," a view of the laws, religion and customs, &c.; lastly, "L`Histoire de la Maison Ottomane," from Osman I till 1758. The whole was nearly completed when interrupted by d`Ohsson`s death on 27 August 1807" (Wikipedia Abruf vom 13.01.2020). - Vorsatz mit hs. namen. Titel mit Randausriss (ohne Textberührung). Etw. fleckig und leicht gebräunt.