Andreas Acoluthus
Andreas Acoluthus (born March 16, 1654 in Bernstadt ; † November 4, 1704 in Breslau ) was a German orientalist and linguist .
Life
Andreas Acoluthus was the son of the pastor of St. Elisabeth's Church and inspector of the Wroclaw churches and schools Dr. theol. Johannes Acoluthus was born. At the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau , under August Pfeiffer , who later became superintendent of Lübeck , he found extensive training in oriental languages such as Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldean, Arabic, Persian and Ethiopian. Later, Acoluthus used the acquired knowledge to link it with the languages Mauritanian, Turkish, Coptic, Armenian and Chinese.
In 1674 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained an academic master's degree and gave private lectures. In 1680 his work of the Prophet Obadja appeared with Armenian observations, which was the first Armenian print in Germany. In 1682 the treatise “ De aquis zelotypiae amaris ” appeared, which paved the way for him to become a professor in Leipzig.
However, he did not keep this chair for long; he returned to Breslau in 1683, where he entered the church service. After six years, he was made professor of the Hebrew language at the Elisabeth Gymnasium in 1689, and the following year he was appointed senior to the St. Bernard Church.
Since he showed a great deal of diligence through his continued studies of the oriental languages, he was given the task of editing an Arabic manuscript of the Koran with a Persian and Turkish translation. Since the Koran was practically unknown in Germany due to the burning of the Pope in 1530, Acoluthus decided to publish the trilingual manuscript that he had received with a Latin translation. To do this, he turned to Friedrich von Prussia in Berlin, who supported Acoluthus as a sponsor of the sciences and from whom he received an annual pension from then on. From the above-mentioned Koran, a text " Specimen alcorani quadrilinguis " appeared in 1701 , which brought him recognition in the form of admission as a foreign member to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin .
The doctor Johann Acoluth was his brother, the doctor and pharmacist Johann Karl Acoluth was his son and the lawyer and writer Karl Benjamin Acoluth was his grandson.
Works
- Prophet Obadiah , 1680
- De aquis zelotypiae amaris , 1682
- Specimen alcorani quadrilinguis , 1701
literature
- Adolf Schimmelpfennig: Acoluthus, M. Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 40.
- Hans Stried: Acoluthus, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 38 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hartmut Bobzin : The Koran polyglot of Andreas Acoluthus (1654-1704). In: Klaus Kreiser (Ed.): Germano-Turcica. On the history of learning Turkish in German-speaking countries , Bamberg University Library, Bamberg 1987, ISBN 3-923507-06-2 , pp. 57–60.
- Boris Liebrenz, "Andreas Acoluthus and the beginning of Armenian pressure in Germany." Armenian-German correspondence 146 (2009): 46-48.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Andreas Acoluth (us). Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, accessed on February 12, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Acoluthus, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1654 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1704 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |