[work in progress]
(1) Independent publications
Waldmeier, Theophilus. Wörter-Sammlung der Agau-Sprache: Von einem Freund der orientalischen Sprache [i.e., Krapf] zum Druck befördert. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1868. [Digitale-Sammlungen]
⸻. Erlebnisse in Abessinien in den Jahren 1858 – 1868 [Experiences in Abyssinia in the years 1858-68]. Bevorwortet von Dr. L. Krapf. Basel: Spittler, 1869. [Printed by the Mission-Press in St. Chrischona; view online]
- Dutch version: Onze gevangenschap in Abessinië: met eene schets van koning Theodorus, zijn land en zijn volk. Translated from the English version by Henry Blanc. Zwolle: Van Hoogstraten & Gorter, 1869. [HathiTrust]
Waldmeier, Theophilus, tr. Christ is All and in All: translated from the English into Amharic. St. Chrischona: Mission-Press, 1874.
- Copy available at St. Chrischona Theol. Seminary Library;
Ref. Code: PM074852
Waldmeier, Theophilus. The Autobiography of Theophilus Waldmeier, Missionary: Being an Account of Ten Years’ Life in Abyssinia; and Sixteen Years in Syria. London: Partridge; Leominster: Orphans’ Printing Press, 1886. [View online]
⸻. Aufruf zur Gründung der ersten Irrenanstalt im Orient [Call for the establishment of the first mental hospital in the Orient]. Bern 1896. [Copy available in Basel; Ref. Code: UBH Med Cv 102:15]
⸻. The Autobiography of Theophilus Waldmeier Comprising Ten Years in Abyssinia and Forty-six Years in Syria: with some Description of the Peoples and Religions of these Countries. Edited by Stephen Hobhouse. London: Friends Bookshop, 1925.
- [317 pages, w. portrait. Copy available, e.g., at BSB München, Code: BV3705.W34]
(2) Letters and articles in mission journals, etc.
» Waldmeier, Letters published in St. Chrischona
- * Mittheilungen aus der Correspondenz der Pilgermission /
?? Letters in Der Glaubensbote ?
» For articles in Friends’ Review; a Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, see the American Periodicals Series (ProQuest)
Rubenson, Sven, ed. Acta Aethiopica; vol. 2: Tewodros and His Contemporaries, 1855‒1868. Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa Univ. Press; Lund: Lund Univ. Press, 1994.
- See documents no. 108, 127, 177, 211, 242.
(3) Secondary Literature
Arén, Gustav. Evangelical Pioneers in Ethiopia: Origins of the Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Stockholm: EFS förlaget; Addis Ababa: Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, 1978. [See p. 94, 101; view online]
De Fischer, Beat. Contributions à la connaissance des relations suisses-égyptiennes d’environ 100 à 1949: suives d’une esquisse des relations suisses-éthiopiennes jusqu’en 1952. Lisbon (Portugal): Presses de la Maison Ramos, Afonso & Moita, 1956. See p. 282‒87].
Gräber, Gerd. “Die befreiten Geiseln Kaiser Tewodros’ II: Aus dem Photoalbum der Royal Engineers 1867/68,” Aethiopica 2 (1999):159‒82. [Online]
Smidt, Wolbert. “Waldmeier, Theophilus”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 4, edited by Siegbert Uhlig in cooperation with Alessandro Bausi, p. 1114‒15. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010. [Cf. Sewasew]
(4) Unpublished material
Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt
Waldmeier to Maria Gobat-Zeller, Beirut 1873. Ref. Code: PA 653a XXXI 1.299