Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (born September 3, 1813 in Nassereith , Tyrol , † December 19, 1893 in Heidelberg ) was an Austrian orientalist .
Life
In addition to medicine and natural sciences, Sprenger studied oriental languages at the University of Vienna , went to London in 1836 , where he worked as an unskilled worker for the Count of Munster on his great work on the history of war sciences among the Muslim peoples, in 1843 to Calcutta and was here in 1848 appointed head of the college in Delhi , in which position he had many instructional scripts from European languages translated into Hindustani .
In 1848 he was sent to Lucknow to prepare a catalog for the royal library there, the first volume of which was published in Calcutta in 1854. This book, with its lists of Persian poets, its careful description of all the major works of Persian poetry and its valuable biographical material, became a valuable tool for researching neo-Persian literature .
In 1850 Sprenger was appointed examiner , government interpreter and secretary of the Asian Society in Calcutta. In this capacity Sprenger published several works, including "Dictionary of the technical terms used in the sciences of the Musulmans" (1854) and " Ibn Hajar’s biographical dictionary of persons who knew Mohammed" (1856).
From 1857 Sprenger worked as a professor of oriental languages at the University of Bern , but moved to Heidelberg in November 1881. The royal library in Berlin bought his extensive collection of Arabic, Persian, Hindostan and other manuscripts and prints .
From 1858 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- Otby's history of Mahmud of Ghaznah (Arabic, Delhi 1847)
- Notices of some copies of the Arabic work entitled “Rasàyil Ikhwàm al-cafâ” (Arabic, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1848)
- Masudî's meadows of gold (translation, London 1849, volume 1)
- The Gulistân of Sady (Persian, Calcutta 1851)
- The life and teaching of Mohammed. According to previously largely unused sources . Olms, Hildesheim 2003 (repr. Of the Berlin 1861 edition)
- Post and travel routes of the Orient . Institute for Islamic-Arabic History, Frankfurt / M. 1993 (Repr. Of the Leipzig edition 1864)
- The ancient geography of Arabia as the basis of the history of the development of Semitism . Bern 1875
- Babylonia, the richest land in prehistoric times and the most rewarding field of colonization . Heidelberg 1886
- Dictionary of the technical terms used in the sciences of the musulmans . Calcutta 1854
- Soyuti's Itqân on the exegetic sciences of the Qoran in Arabic . Calcutta 1856
- Ibn Hajar'S biographical dictionary of persons who knew Mohammed . Calcutta 1856
- Mohammed and the Koran: a psychological study . Verl.-Anst. and Dr. A.-G., Hamburg 1889 ( digitized version )
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Sprenger, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 258–263 ( digitized version ).
- Norbert Mantl (Ed.): Aloys Sprenger, the orientalist and Islam historian from Nassereith in Tyrol . Self-published by the municipality, Nassereith 1993.
- S. Procházka: Sprenger Aloys. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 49.
Web links
- Literature by and about Aloys Sprenger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Some works in digitized form, including The Life and Teaching of Mohammad , Berlin 1869.
- Works at archive.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprenger, Aloys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nassereith , Tyrol |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1893 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |