4to. Latin with some Arabic text, Volume I: [4], 32 pp., published by Libraria Stilleriana, Rostochii, 1794 / Volume II: 16 pp., 1788 / Volume III: 42 pp. 1790 / Volume IV: 14 pp., 1789, 3 engraved plates, modern cloth backed boards, faint title gilt on spine, scattered foxing, paper browned, Volumes 2, 3 & 4 published by Rostochii, 1788-1794.

Synopsis

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen was a German Orientalist and Hebrew scholar. He is known today as one of the founding fathers of Islamic numismatics. He spent a year of missionary work towards the conversion of Jews, and then taught Hebrew in the newly founded University of Bützow. He held librarian and academic positions in Bützow. There he founded the Journal Bützower Nebenstunden, which comprised a broad variety of articles about the Old Testament and Oriental Culture, especially material culture, such as Islamic coins.
From 1778 he taught at the University of Rostock. He worked in different fields of Oriental studies, Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew. His Introduction into Islamic Numismatics, in 1794, was the first scientific handbook on this topic, based on twenty-seven years of research. He was a prolific author who published some forty volumes of scholarly studies during his academic career.
Rare, not in NCC.