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    Hiob or Job Ludolf (Latin: Iobus Ludolfus or Ludolphus; 15 June 1624 – 8 April 1704), also known as Job Leutholf, was a German orientalist, born at Erfurt...
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  • Hiob may refer to: People with the surname Hiob: Hanne Hiob (1923–2009), German actress People with the given name Hiob: Hiob Ludolf (1624–1704), German...
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  • include: George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff (1778-1858), prominent Prussian Roman Catholic convert and parliamentarian Hiob Ludolf (1624–1704), German orientalist...
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    famous for co-authoring encyclopedias with his friend and companion Hiob Ludolf in two Ethiopian languages, Amharic and Ge'ez, both in Ge'ez script....
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    friend Hiob Ludolf co-authored the earliest grammar book of the Amharic language, an Amharic-Latin dictionary, as well as contributing to Ludolf's book...
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    identical to the one quoted by the Epistle of Jude and the Church Fathers. Hiob Ludolf, the great Ethiopic scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries, soon claimed...
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    published in Latin in 1538 by Guillaume Postel. Almost two centuries later, Hiob Ludolf described the similarities between these three languages and the Ethiopian...
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  • Almeida borrowed heavily from in writing his history of Ethiopia, and Hiob Ludolf derived much of his information on the Oromo from Baltazar Téllez's abridgment...
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  • developed locally by native Ethiopians as well as by foreign historians like Hiob Ludolf. The late 19th and early 20th centuries marked a period where Western...
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    is said to hail from Woreilu. In a 1650 letter to the German scholar Hiob Ludolf (1624-1704), the Ethiopologist deservedly known as the father of Ethiopian...
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    that the renowned German scholar Hiob Ludolf traveled specifically to France to consult it. According to Hiob Ludolf in Historia Aethiopica, he was characterized...
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  • highlands at this time." It was first suggested by German orientalist Hiob Ludolf and revived by early 20th-century Italian scholar Conti Rossini. According...
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    date to his reign. Many foreign travelers such as Manuel de Almeida and Hiob Ludolf credited most of the monuments to Egyptian architects, with Francisco...
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    horrified, not to mention international observers such as German historian Hiob Ludolf (president of the Collegium Imperiale Historicum), who illustrated the...
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    ruled by priests. Seventeenth-century academics like German orientalist Hiob Ludolf demonstrated that there was no actual native connection between Prester...
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    distinguished purely on geographical, rather than physical, grounds. Hiob Ludolf, in his Historia aethiopica, was the first to clearly distinguish the...
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  • and ecumenical traveller. He is known also as a linguist. Ludolf was the nephew of Hiob Ludolf the linguist. He acted as a Danish and as an English diplomat...
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  • 1611) 1697 – Niels Juel, Norwegian-Danish admiral (b. 1629) 1704 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist and philologist (b. 1624) 1704 – Henry Sydney, 1st...
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    du Hamel, French cleric and natural philosopher (d. 1706) June 15 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704) June 16 – William Bradford, American political...
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    Murdering of the Polish–Lithuanian prisoners after the battle. Painting by Hiob Ludolf in 1713 Belligerents Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate Polish–Lithuanian...
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    pointed out similarities between Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic in 1538, and Hiob Ludolf noted similarities also to Ge'ez and Amharic in 1701. This family was...
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  • Hickes 1696 Russian Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf 1696 Chinese Martino Martini 1697 Kimbundu Pedro Dias 1698 Amharic Hiob Ludolf written in collaboration with Abba...
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    Adamo Baner 60 Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden 61 Matteo de' Ragnina 62 Hiob Ludolf 63 Stefano Gallini 64 Filippo Salviati 65 Oberto Pallavicino 66 Pope...
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  • of the Island Ceylon Anne Lefèvre – Anacreon and Sappho (translation) Hiob Ludolf – Historia Aethiopica William Penn – True Spiritual Liberty John Pordage...
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  • Preservation, Research) was a 2009–2015 research project hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies (HLCEES) of the University of Hamburg. The...
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  • Gorgoryos (1595–1658). Gorgoryos along with his colleague and friend Hiob Ludolf co-authored the earliest grammar book of the Amharic language and also...
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    Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung), a project hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies at the Universität Hamburg...
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    15th to 17th centuries, "Aymellel" was listed by some explorers such as Hiob Ludolf as an independent district separate from other Gurages, who were described...
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  • resistance, for example on the mating rituals of the Nile crocodile. Ludolf, Hiob, Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum, Ed. by J. M. Wansleben, London 1661. Nouvelle...
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    Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels, German nobleman (b. 1652) April 8 Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English...
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