Oblong folio. 56 pp., three columns per page, 4 tinted lithographic plates, profusely illustrated in b/w photographs, woodcuts & 4 panels sepia paintings, cloth backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed at spine, corners of pictorial cover and few pages professionally restored, small marginal tears to few plates without any loss, some pages frail, St Johannis-Druckerei / Hermann Jähnichen, Dinglingen (Baden) and Frankfurt, [1899].

Synopsis

Ernst Lohmann (1860-1936 ) was a German Protestant clergyman and founder of the German Relief Society for Christian love work in the Orient. As a reaction to the news of the Armenian massacres of 1894/5 he founded a school for missionaries in the Middle East and the ‘German Aid Network for Christian Love Work in the Orient’. He visited Constantinople, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, with sojourns in Izmir, Mersin, Tarsus, Adana, Sis, Saimbeyli, Marash, Zeitun (Suleymanlie), Aintab and Urfa. The the reconnaissance party moved to Mesereh and through Cappadocia to Sivas and back via Constantinople.Brockes published his travelogues in the conservative Berliner Zeitung Reichsbote and 1900 in book form. The reports and figures give an insight into the world of the Armenian population, which went down in 1915. The outcome is one of the most moving and best-illustrated firsthand reports of the aftermath of the massacres.
Not in COPAC; OCLC locates copies at Yale, University of Strasbourg and in the Berlin State Library.