Author: KAEMPFER, ENGELBERT. Klocke-Daffa, Sabine, Jürgen Scheffler & Gisela Wilbertz. (eds).
Title: Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) und die kulturelle Begegnung zwischen Europa und Asien.
Description: Lemgo, Landesverband Lippe, Institut für Lippische Landeskunde, 2003. 355 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (boards), d./j. 8vo. (Lippische Studien, Bd. 18). [ISBN: 9783936225112].Engelbert Kaempfer was one of the great German explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries. A thirst for knowledge and cosmopolitanism determined his life: he traveled Asia for ten years and meticulously recorded everything he encountered. His work had a significant influence on the cultural encounter between Europe and Asia, and his most famous work, the history and description of Japan, shaped Europeans' image of Japan until the 19th century. In 2001, his hometown of Lemgo celebrated the 350th birthday of the great scholar. This volume contains 14 articles on the work and the history of Engelbert Kaempfer's influence. The articles deal with Lemgo and Lippe, i.e. the world in which Kaempfer grew up and to which he returned, as well as the most important destinations of his journey: Persia and Japan. This also makes a contribution to research into European-Asian relations in the early modern period. With contributions from experts in East Asian history and Engelbert Kaempfer research such as Barend Terwiel, Birgitt Hoffmann, Folker Reichert, Florian Coulmans, Reinhard Zöllner, Wolfgang Michel, Josef Kreiner and Jürgen Osterhammel. - Text in GErman.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Etnografie Azië