Albert Dietrich (Arabist)

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Albert Dietrich (born November 2, 1912 in Hamburg , † December 25, 2015 in Göttingen ) was a German Arabist .

Life

Albert Dietrich studied Arabic and oriental studies at the University of Hamburg and was at 1937 Arthur Schaade and Rudolf Strothmann with a dissertation on the Arabic Papyri at the Hamburg University Library doctorate . On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 4,790,773). In the same year he became a member of the DMG .

After serving in the Second World War , he went to Heidelberg University and completed his habilitation there in 1949. In 1956, he was appointed adjunct professor and worked as a consultant in the Istanbul department of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1959 he followed a call from the University of Göttingen to the chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, which he held until his retirement in 1981. He was succeeded by Tilman Nagel .

Dietrich had been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1961 and a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei since 1974 . In September 2012 he was made an honorary member of the European Association of Arabists and Islamic Scholars (UEAI).

Albert Dietrich was with Gertrud geb. Bendixen (1918–2014) married. The couple had four sons. He died on December 25, 2015 in Göttingen.

Fonts (selection)

  • Phoenician place names in Spain . Leipzig 1936
  • Arabic papyri from the Hamburg State and University Library . Leipzig 1937 (dissertation)
  • On the drug trade in Islamic Egypt: A study of the Arabic manuscript No. 912 of the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection . Heidelberg 1954
  • Arabic letters from the papyrus collection of the Hamburg State and University Library . Hamburg 1955 (habilitation thesis)
  • Ad-dirāsāt al-ʿarabijja fī Almānjā: Taṭaw-wuruhā at-taʾ rīḫī wa-waḍ ʿuhā al-ḥālī . Wiesbaden 1962. Second, increased edition, Wiesbaden 1967
  • Islam and the West . Goettingen 1964
  • The Arabic version of an unknown work by Alexander von Aphrodisias on the differentia specifica . Goettingen 1964
  • Medicinalia Arabica. Studies of Arabic medical manuscripts in Turkish and Syrian libraries . Goettingen 1966
  • Orient and Occident . Wilhelmshaven 1973 ( Wilhelmshaven Lectures 58)
  • ʿAlī Ibn Riḍwān: On the path to happiness through the medical profession. Arabic text with commented German translation . Göttingen 1982. ISBN 3-525-82408-4
  • Dioscurides triumphans: An anonymous Arabic commentary (late 12th century AD) on the materia medica. Arabic text with commented German translation . Two parts, Göttingen 1988
  • The Dioscurides Declaration by Ibn-al-Baiṭār. A contribution to the Arabic plant synonymy of the Middle Ages. Arabic text with commented German translation . Göttingen 1991 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: philological-historical class , III, 191). ISBN 3-525-82478-5
  • The addition of Ibn-Ergänzungulğul to the Materia medica of Dioscurides. Arabic text with commented German translation . Göttingen 1993. ISBN 3-525-82589-7
Editing
  • Syncretism in the Syrian-Persian cultural area. Report on a symposium in Reinhausen near Göttingen in d. Period from 4th to 8th October 1971 . Göttingen 1975. ISBN 3-525-82374-6
  • Files of the VII. Congress for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Göttingen, 15. – 22. August 1974 . Göttingen 1976. ISBN 3-525-82377-0

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 20th Edition (2005), pp. 585–586.
  • Tilman Nagel: Obituary for Albert Dietrich November 02, 1912 - December 15, 2015. In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. 2016, pp. 226–228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Göttinger Tageblatt of January 7, 2016
  2. ^ A b Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 474.
  3. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 37.
  4. ↑ http://www.gt-trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/albert-dietrich/44662261
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Arabist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2015
Place of death Goettingen