Jerónimo Lobo

Jerónimo Lobo (* 1593 ; † January 29, 1678 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese explorer , Jesuit and missionary .

Life

Lobo joined the Jesuit Order in 1609 . In 1622 he went to Goa as a missionary . In 1624 he set out on his first trip to Ethiopia , where, according to Zedler, he was deported by the Ottoman authorities. In 1625 he made the trip to Ethiopia, u. a. with Afonso Mendes , the Patriarch of Ethiopia . Lobo settled in Fremona , from where he worked as a missionary until the Catholic missionaries were banished from Ethiopia in 1634 by Emperor Sissinios. After returning to Goa on December 8, 1634, he traveled to Europe and was shipwrecked. After being abandoned by the Dutch on a desert island, it finally got to Rome via Cádiz , Seville and Lisbon . In 1640 he went back to Goa, where he worked as superior , then as provincial of the Jesuit monastery. In 1658 he returned to his native Portugal.

Works

In German language

• P. Hieronymi of a Jesuit in Portugal New description and report of the true nature 1. Of the Mohrenland, especially the Abyssinian Käysersthums. 2. Of origin Nyli. 3. Where to find the unicorn. 4. Why the Abyssin Käiser priest John was genñered. 5. How does the Red Sea look like and where did it get its name from? 6. Of different types of palm trees, and of their virtue and usability ... Message translated into the German language Nuremberg 1670, printed by Christoff Gerhard

In English

• A short relation of the river Nile, of its source and current; of its overflowing the Campagnia of Aegipt till it runs into Mediterranean ... / Written by an Eye-whitness who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of Abyssine Empire London, Printed for John Martin, 1673
• Modern edition: The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo; translated by Donald M. Lockhart; from the Portuguese text established and edited by MG da Costa; with an introduction and notes by CF Beckingham London, The Hakluyt Society, 1984

In French

• Voyage Historique d'Abissinie du RP Jerome Lobo de la Compagnie de Jesus; traduit du Portugais, continué & augmenté de plusieurs dissertations, lettres & mémoires par M.Le Grand, prieur de Neuville-les-Dames & de Prevessin Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1728. Microfiche of the historical edition: Hildesheim Olms 1993–1998 , ISBN 3-487-27227-X

Web links

• Publications by and about Jerónimo Lobo in VD 17 .
• Works by Jerónimo Lobo in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available to users from Germany )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lobo Hieronymus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 18, Leipzig 1738, column 46 f.