Johann Wetzel under the title Die Reise der Söhne Giaffers. Ed. by Herm.
Fischer and Joh. Bolte (BLVS, vol. 208), Tüb. 1895.

[77] Fürst, op. cit. p. 52. The name is derived from the Arabic صد يق
"speaker of the truth," as pointed out by Hammer in Red. p. 326. See
essay L'ange et l'hermite by Gaston Paris in La Poésie du Moyen Age,
Paris, 1887, p. 151.

[78] Fürst, op. cit. p. 154.




CHAPTER III.

HERDER.

Herder's Interest in the Orient--Fourth Collection of his
Zerstreute Blätter--His Didactic Tendency And Predilection For
Saʻdī.


The epoch-making work of the English Orientalists, and above all, of the
illustrious Sir William Jones, at the end of the eighteenth century not
only laid the foundation of Sanskrit scholarship in Europe, but also
gave the first direct impulse to the Oriental movement which in the
first half of the nineteenth century manifests itself so strikingly both
in English as well as in German literature, especially in the work of
the poets. In Germany this movement came just at the time when the idea
of a universal literature had taken hold of the minds of the leading