Title: Über die Neueste Kunde von Persien.
[On the Latest News from Persia.]
Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1809. 8vo. 20 pages. Text is in German.
This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account.
Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.
This issue contains critical analysis of then recent historical events in Persia, written during the Russo-Persian War, and drawing from books by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Ange de Gardane, and Edward Scott Waring. With commentary on important
leaders Muhammad Khan Qajar, Adil Shah, Karim Khan, Lotf Ali Khan, Baba Khan,
and Fath Ali Shah, and pivotal events such as the division
of the Kingdom of Persia into 'Persia' in the east and 'Kandahar' (Afghanistan) in
the west, following the death of Nader Shah Afshar. The essayist also discusses
the termination of the Zand dynasty, and establishment of the Qajar dynasty.
Of furthur interest are early nineteenth century topographical details of major cities including Tehran (Teheran), Kasbin (Qazvin), Hamadan, Tabris (Tabriz), Kermanshah,
Kom (Qom, Qum), Kashan, Ispahan (Isfahan), Ferabad, Ashraf, Lar, Kasrun, and Shiraz.
These are the original pages printed in 1809, and NOT a reprint.
This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816
and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy.
Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important
scientific journal.
Muhammad Khan Qajar (1742-1797) was the chief of the Qajar tribe.
He became the Emperor/Shah of Persia in 1794 and established the Qajar dynasty.
He became chief of his tribe in 1758. In 1762, Agha Muhammad was captured by
a rival tribe and sent to Shiraz as a prisoner to Karim Khan's court. He spent
sixteen years as a hostage until his escape in 1779. In the period of civil war,
Agha Muhammad launched a rebellion which, in 1794, succeeded in capturing
Lotf Ali Khan, the last Zand ruler. Two years later he proclaimed himself
Shahanshah (King of Kings). Agha Muhammad restored unity to Persia however, he
was a man of extreme violence who killed almost all who could threaten his
hold on power. He was succeeded by his nephew, Fath Ali Shah Qajar.
The 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, one of the many wars between the
Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, began like many wars as a territorial
dispute. The Persian king, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, wanted to consolidate the
northernmost reaches of his Qajar dynasty by securing land near the Caspian Sea's southwestern coast (modern Azerbaijan) and the Transcaucasus (modern Georgia
and Armenia). Like his Persian counterpart, the Russian czar Alexander I was
also new to the throne and equally determined to control the disputed territories.
Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar (Fathalishah, Fathali Shah) 1772/3 - 1834) was the second
Qajar king of Persia. He ruled from 17 June 1797 to 23 October 1834.
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756-1814) was a French entomologist and author
of "Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes" published in 1808, and of
"Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse" in 1807.
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