Alfred Siggel

Alfred Siggel (born August 15, 1884 in Berlin , † February 23, 1959 in Mainz ) was a German orientalist , university professor, politician and district mayor of the then Lichtenberg district between 1926 and 1933 .

Life

Alfred Siggel became an elementary school teacher in the community of Lichtenberg after attending school. At the same time he earned his Abitur in 1906 and studied mathematics for a higher teaching post until 1910. With his graduation he got a job as a teacher, now attended lectures on physics and received his doctorate in this field in 1913. When Lichtenberg became a separate town, the citizens elected him to the administration, where Siggel was town school administrator until 1926. Then he moved to the first position and became district mayor of the city of Lichtenberg, which is now incorporated into Berlin. During his tenure, Siggel inaugurated the Lichtenberg municipal swimming pool in 1927 and the Lichtenberg municipal swimming pool in February 1928 . When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Siggel was removed from this office for political reasons.

Now he discovered his interest in oriental studies and completed additional studies at the Berlin University by 1941 . Together with other scientists, he worked from 1941 on the catalog of the Arabic Alchemical Manuscripts at the Prussian Academy of Sciences . After the end of the Second World War he was employed by the academy in 1945 and in 1946 was given a teaching position at the Humboldt University. Siggel moved to Mainz around 1950 , where he worked at the Academy of Sciences and Literature until his retirement in 1952 .

Honor

On March 23, 2012, a new street in Berlin-Karlshorst was named Alfred-Siggel-Weg in his honor, following a resolution by the Lichtenberg District Assembly.

Publications (selection)

• The Indian books from the Paradise of Wisdom on the Medicine of 'Alī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī. In: Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1950, No. 14. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Wiesbaden (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag.)
• Arabic-German dictionary of materials from the three natural kingdoms. Berlin 1950.
• The propaedeutic chapters from the Paradise of Wisdom on the medicine of 'Alī b. Sahl Rabban aṭ Ṭabarī. In: Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born in 1953, No. 8. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Wiesbaden (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag.)
• Al-Kindī's writing on the compound remedies. In: Sudhoffs Archiv 37, 1953, pp. 389-393.
• The book of poisons by Ğābir ibn Ḥayyān. Facsimile. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1958. (Publications of the Oriental Commission, Vol. 12)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Szymon Piotr Kubiak: Bathing in the Electropolis. From a Berlin river bath from the 1920s. ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. spree2011.de, pp. 8 and 10; Retrieved November 9, 2012. 
2. ↑ Ludmila Hanisch: The successors of the exegetes. German-language exploration of the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04758-5 , p. 207.
3. ↑ Alfred-Siggel-Weg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
4. ↑ Sudhoffs Archive for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences (SudArch): Vol. 27, 1934 - Vol. 49, 1965. (search for "Siggel" with the browser)