Carl Johan Tornberg
Carl Johan Tornberg (born October 23, 1807 in Linköping , † September 6, 1877 in Lund ) was a Swedish orientalist .
Life
Tornberg studied from 1826 to Uppsala theology and oriental languages , habilitated in 1835 there as a lecturer of Arabic , sat 1836-38 his language studies still in Paris under Silvestre de Sacy , Pierre Amédée Jaubert and Étienne Marc Quatremère continued and in 1844 extraordinary, ordinary 1850 Professor of Oriental Languages at Lund University . In 1858/59 he was the rector of the university.
In December 1873 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Works
Oriental studies
- Ibn al-Wardis Fragmenta libri Margarita mirabilium (with Latin translation, Uppsala 1835-45, 2 vols.)
- Primordia dominationis Murabitorum (from the book called Kartas , Uppsala 1839)
- Ibn Khaldun's Narratio de expeditionibus Francorum in terras Islamismo subjectas (Uppsala 1840)
- Ibn abi Zera ' Fesanos Annales regum Mauritaniae (in Arabic Roudh el Kartas , with Latin translation and notes, Uppsala 1843–1846, 2 vols.)
- Ibn al-Athir's extensive Chronicon, quod perfectissimum dicitur (in Arabic: Kamil Ette warikh , Leid.en1851-74, 13 vols.).
- De linguae Aramaeae dialectis (Uppsala 1842)
- Description of the Codices arabici, persici et turcici bibliothecae Upsaliensis (Uppsala 1849)
- Description of the Codices orientales bibliothecae Lundensis (Lund 1850)
numismatics
- Symbolae ad rem numariam Muhammedanorum (Uppsala 1846–1856, 3 parts)
- Numi cufici (Uppsala 1848)
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Carl J. Tornberg. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 27, 2015 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tornberg, Carl Johan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linkoping |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1877 |
| Place of death | Lund |