Reise in den Orient

Tischendorf describes his journey to Egypt and Israel in a work that is part travel diary and part historical account.

Constantin von Tischendorf (Author)

9781108014762, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 August 2010

324 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.41 kg

Reise in den Orient (1846) is the German biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf's recollection of his journey to Egypt, Israel and Greece at the beginning of the 1840s. The work is a travel diary that vividly describes Tischendorf's meeting with mythological places and impressive men, and a learned account of the Christian history of the area. Volume 1 describes his encounter with Ibrahim Pasha and the humanism of Mehmet Ali. Tischendorf undertakes research in the Library of the Patriarch of Alexandria and visits the pyramids, only to compare them with one of the great German cathedrals. At the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, Tischendorf makes an extraordinary and significant discovery - a fourth-century manuscript, one of the main witnesses to the Septuagint. Thereafter he sets off for Jerusalem and en route takes delight in the fascinating and ancient traditions of the Bedouins, and their camels.

Brief an meinen bruder vor der abreise von Livorno
Malta am 26 März 1844
Alexandrien am 6 April
Cairo am 12 April
Mehemed Ali
Cairo am 8 Mai
Besuch bei Ibrahim Bascha
Klosterwanderungen in Cairo
Der griechische Patriarch von Alexandrien
Die Pyramiden
Besuch bie den orientalischen frauen
Die koptischen klöster der libnschen Wüste
Memphis und Heliopolis
Expedition nach Altcairo
Abbotts Alterthümer
Reise zum Sina
Von Cairo bis Suez
Suez
Zug der Israeliten durchs rothe meer
Von Ajin Musa nach dem Sinai
Der Sinae und sein kloster
Der Pfingstmorgen auf dem Sinai
Ueber die Geschichte des klosters
Abschied vom Sinai
Rückfehr vom Sinae nach Cairo
Reise nach Jerusalem
Ankunft in Jerusalem
Jerusalem.

Subject Areas: Archaeology by period / region [HDD]