Table of Contents Foreword by Karl Heinz Kohl, Director of the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt am Main vii Introductory Remark by Irmtraut Hubatsch, Director of the Goethe-Institute, Addis Ababa viii Opening Remark by Ahmed Hassen Omer, Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University ix Opening Remark by Yemane Zeray, Director, Directorate of Corporate Communication and International Relations, Mekelle University x Editorial and Acknowledgement xi Introduction: A Short History of Ethiopian-German Relations from Biblical Dreams to the Modern State (Wolbert G.C. SMIDT) 1 Gorgoryos and Ludolf: The Ethiopian and German Fore-Fathers of Ethiopian Studies. An Ethiopian scholar's 1652 visit to Thuringia (Wolbert G.C. SMIDT) 11 Annex: Original text by Abba Gorgoryos on the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Priesthood: De Ministerio Ecclesiastico 21 Gotha's Relations to Ethiopia (Knut KREUCH) 27 An Unknown German Manuscript on Ethiopia in the Goethe Nachlass in Weimar: Niebuhr on His Research Expedition and His Criticism of James Bruce (lb FRI IS) 35 An Annotated Late Eighteenth Century Map of Ethiopia (Christopher CLAPHAM and Wolbert G.C. SMIDT) 47 A Remarkable Chapter of German Research History: The Protestant Mission and the Oromo in the Nineteenth Century (Wolbert G.C. SMIDT) 61 Annex: Early Examples of Oromo Writing from the Tutschek Nachlass in Munich: Two Letters by the Oromo Ochuu Agaa and Akkafedhee from October 1840 73 Georg Wilhelm Schimper: Botanist and Explorer, Geologist and Mapmaker in Northern Ethiopia 1837 to 1878 (Dorothea McEWAN) 79 Werner Munzinger Pascha: An Orientalist and Ethnographer-Turned-Politician in the Ethiopian-Egyptian Borderlands (Wolbert G.C. SMIDT) 105 http://d-nb.info/1076369731 Table of Contents Regional History and Ethnohistory: Gerhard Rohlfs and Other Germanophone Researchers and a Forgotten Ethnic Group, the Dobca (FESSEHA BERHE) 127 The Bieber Family's Fascination with Africa (Klaus BlEBER) 139 Enno Littmann: An Assessment of His Legacy in the Light of Ongoing Scholarly Debates (YOHANNES GEBRESELASSIE) 157 Leo Frobenius and Northeast Africa: An Indiscreet Secret Mission and the Foundation of Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute (Sophia THUBAUVILLE) 173 Adolf Ellegard Jensen, Eike Haberland and the Frankfurt Research Tradition in Southern Ethiopia (Dirk BUSTORF) 185 Herma Plazikowsky-Brauner: A Life Devoted to Ethiopian Languages and Cultures (Sophia THUBAUVILLE) 197 The Meritorious Complex: A Research Focus of the Frobenius Institute in Ethiopia (Ulrich BRAUK.AMPER) 205 Homage to the Cultures of South Omo (Ivo STRECK.ER) 213 Volker Stitz and the Ethiopian Studies: A Reappraisal of His Multi-Disciplinary Research Method (AHMED HASSEN OMER) 221 Dynamics of Identification: Research on Northeast Africa at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale (Gunther SCHLEE and Echi Christina GABBERT) 229 'Blue Skies Subjects' must be Maintained and Cultivated in Germany: The Role of Ethiopian Studies in Today's German Academic Landscape (ASFA-WOSSEN ASSERATE) 239 Scenes in Ethiopia: Illustrations by Johann Martin Bernatz (Sophia THUBAUVILLE and Wolbert G.C. SMIDT) 247 List of Contributors 251 .