Jan Loop's meticulous study takes the reader deep into arcane territory
Robert Irwin, The Times Literary Supplement
Students of the history of early modern scholarship will find it indispensable, not least for the new material and precise understanding that it includes concerning topics as diverse as the debate over the antiquity of Hebrew vowel points or the case ... Read morefor the relative beauty and copiousness of the different Semitic languages, from which one might argue for the primacy of Arabic.
Scott Mandelbrote, The Library
[Loop] has thoroughly examined not only the published works of Hottinger and his authorities, but also an enormous amount of unpublished correspondence ... He also displays a truly astonishing familiarity with the relevant secondary literature, not only of recent times, but also from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries ... Loop has brought to his task an acute critical judgment, and a profound knowledge of the historical background, complemented by his ability to present a complicated web of events and activities in an intelligible and consistently interesting narrative. The result is a book which not only restores Hottinger to his rightful place in the development of oriental studies, but is a major contribution to the history of scholarship.
G. J. Toomer, History of Universities
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