Michael Boyms Bericht aus Mosambik - 1644 ; Lateinischer Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Mit ethnographischen Paralleltexten des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts aus der Wiener Sammlung Woldan

• Main Author: Robert, Wallisch (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Latin; Italian
• Published: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2005
• Series: Wiener Studien Beihefte 29
• Subjects: European history; African history; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Colonialism & imperialism; travelogue; michael boym; latin linguistics
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

For several months of 1644, monsoon winds held the Pole Michael Boym, the great China missionary, in Mozambique off the coast of southeastern Africa. His report, published here for the first time, about the "Country of the Kaffirs" represents not only an important source for the local hist...