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. Edward Ullendorff rates Ludolf as having "the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship".[1]
^Edward Ullendorff, The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, second edition (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 9.
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...
Hiob may refer to: People with the surname Hiob: Hanne Hiob (1923–2009), German actress People with the given name Hiob: HiobLudolf (1624–1704), German...
include: George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff (1778-1858), prominent Prussian Roman Catholic convert and parliamentarian HiobLudolf (1624-1704), German orientalist...
friend HiobLudolf co-authored the earliest grammar book of the Amharic language, an Amharic-Latin dictionary, as well as contributing to Ludolf's book...
Almeida borrowed heavily from in writing his history of Ethiopia, and HiobLudolf derived much of his information on the Oromo from Baltazar Téllez's abridgment...
published in Latin in 1538 by Guillaume Postel. Almost two centuries later, HiobLudolf described the similarities between these three languages and the Ethiopian...
date to his reign. Many foreign travelers such as Manuel de Almeida and HiobLudolf credited most of the monuments to Egyptian architects, with Francisco...
identical to the one quoted by the Epistle of Jude and the Church Fathers. HiobLudolf, the great Ethiopic scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries, soon claimed...
is said to hail from Woreilu. In a 1650 letter to the German scholar HiobLudolf (1624-1704), the Ethiopologist deservedly known as the father of Ethiopian...
developed locally by native Ethiopians as well as by foreign historians like HiobLudolf. The late 19th and early 20th centuries marked a period where Western...
highlands at this time." It was first suggested by German orientalist HiobLudolf and revived by early 20th-century Italian scholar Conti Rossini. According...
horrified, not to mention international observers such as German historian HiobLudolf (president of the Collegium Imperiale Historicum), who illustrated the...
distinguished purely on geographical, rather than physical, grounds. HiobLudolf, in his Historia aethiopica, was the first to clearly distinguish the...
ruled by priests. Seventeenth-century academics like German orientalist HiobLudolf demonstrated that there was no actual native connection between Prester...
and ecumenical traveller. He is known also as a linguist. Ludolf was the nephew of HiobLudolf the linguist. He acted as a Danish and as an English diplomat...
du Hamel, French cleric and natural philosopher (d. 1706) June 15 – HiobLudolf, German orientalist (d. 1704) June 16 – William Bradford, American political...
Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung), a project hosted by the HiobLudolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies at the Universität Hamburg...
pointed out similarities between Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic in 1538, and HiobLudolf noted similarities also to Ge'ez and Amharic in 1701. This family was...
Gorgoryos (1595–1658). Gorgoryos along with his colleague and friend HiobLudolf co-authored the earliest grammar book of the Amharic language and also...
prisoners by the Zaporozhian Cossacks after the Battle of Batih. Painting by HiobLudolf in 1713 Belligerents Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate Polish–Lithuanian...
15th to 17th centuries, "Aymellel" was listed by some explorers such as HiobLudolf as an independent district separate from other Gurages, who were described...
Robert Hetzron Olga Kapeliuk Wolf Leslau Donald N. Levine Enno Littmann HiobLudolf Thomas Lambdin Richard Pankhurst Alula Pankhurst Edward Ullendorff Lanfranco...
(d. 1635) 1623 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672) 1624 – HiobLudolf, German orientalist and philologist (d. 1704) 1640 – Bernard Lamy, French...
for Ethiopian Studies at the University of Hamburg, now known as the HiobLudolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies. From 1994 to 2009, he served...
Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels, German nobleman (b. 1652) April 8 HiobLudolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English...
Thesselius (1590–1643), composer Johannes Bach (1604–1673), composer HiobLudolf (1624–1704), orientalist Johann Michael Vansleb (1635–1679), theologian...
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