Fritz Hommel

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Grave of Fritz Hommel in the Munich North Cemetery

Fritz Hommel (born July 31, 1854 in Ansbach , † April 17, 1936 in Munich ) was a German orientalist .

Life

Hommel was a student of Friedrich Delitzsch , studied in Leipzig and completed his habilitation in Munich in 1877 , where he became an associate professor in 1885 and a full professor in 1892 for Semitic languages . He taught in Munich for almost half a century and trained many students. Among his students were Adam Falkenstein , Muhammad Iqbal and Gershom Scholem . As a student he became a member of the Christian student union Leipziger Wingolf in 1872 and, as a professor, in 1898 a member of the Munich Wingolf .

In addition to linguistic problems, he was also interested in the history of the Near East and its interaction with the culture and intellectual life of neighbors, for example in ancient Egypt . His main work was the Outline of the Geography and History of the Ancient Orient (1904), which was reissued in 1926 by Iwan von Müller and Walter F. Otto under the title Ethnology and Geography of the Ancient Orient . Towards the end of his life he dealt with the history of the Munich artists' quarter Schwabing , where he also had his apartment.

His son was the classical philologist Hildebrecht Hommel (1899-1996).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Ethiopian translation of the Physiologus . Leipzig 1877.
  • The names of the mammals among the South Semitic peoples: As a contribution to the Arabic and Ethiopian lexicography, to Semitic cultural research and language comparison and to the history of the Mediterranean fauna. With constant consideration of the Assyrian and Hebrew animal names and geographical and literary-historical excursions . Leipzig 1879.
  • Two hunting inscriptions from Asurbanipal . Leipzig 1879.
  • The Semitic peoples and languages . Vol. 1 Leipzig 1883.
  • The oldest Arabic version of Barlaam . Vienna 1887.
  • Outline of the history of the ancient Orient . Nordlingen 1887.
  • History of Babylonia and Assyria . Berlin 1885.
  • The Babylonian Origin of Egyptian Culture . Munich 1892.
  • Essays and treatises in Arabic-semitological content Vol. I – III. Munich 1892–1901.
  • South Arabic Chrestomathy . Munich 1893.
  • Sumerian readings . Munich 1894.
  • The ancient Israeli tradition in inscription lighting . Munich 1896.
  • History of the old Orient . Leipzig 1904.
  • The heavenly service of the ancient Arabs and the ancient Israeli tradition . Munich 1900.
  • Four new Arabic landscape names in the Old Testament . Munich 1901.
  • Two hundred Sumero-Turkish word comparisons as the basis for a new chapter in linguistics . Munich 1915 ( digitized version ).
  • To the sources of the oldest herbal books. In: Festschrift for Alexander Tschirch on his 70th birthday. Leipzig 1926, pp. 72-79.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Winkler: Vademekum Wingolfitikum , Wingolfsverlag, Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Hommel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1936
Place of death Munich