Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Members of various Sherif families in Mecca (from Snouck Hurgronje's picture atlas of Mecca from 1888)

Crown Prince Saud is received by Snouck Hurgronje (right) at the University of Leiden (1936) - AJ Wensinck on the far right

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (born February 8, 1857 in Oosterhout , † June 26, 1936 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Arabist and Islamic scholar .

Life

Snouck Hurgronje studied theology, trained in Breda , first theology in Leiden from 1874 , but devoted himself primarily to the study of the oriental languages , especially Arabic under Michael Jan de Goeje , and in 1880 obtained a doctorate in Semitic with his dissertation on "Het Mekkaansche feest" Languages . After further studies in Strasbourg (December 1880 to August 1881), where he studied Syriac under Theodor Nöldeke , he became a lecturer in Islamic law at the seminar for civil servants in the Dutch East Indies in Leiden and in 1884 undertook a research trip to Arabia , where he, disguised as an Islamic legal scholar, spent half a year in Mecca . He put the results of this trip down in a fundamental work “Mecca” (The Hague 1888–89, 2 volumes and picture atlas). After his return (1885), he was also appointed lecturer at the university. In 1888, on behalf of the government, he went on a scientific trip to the Dutch East Indies , today's Indonesia. Shortly after his departure, he turned down the professorship in the Malay language at the University of Leiden , in order to study the state of Islam in the Dutch East Indies thoroughly over a longer period of time.

At his instigation was Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz as Pazifikator used to Atjehkrieg to end. Snouck Hurgronje stayed in the Dutch East Indies until 1906, when he received a professorship in Arabic languages in Leiden . In 1921/22 he was rector of the University of Leiden . Even after this time he played an important role in Dutch colonial policy as a consultant for domestic and Arab matters. In 1913 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy and in 1929 a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

Het Mekkansche Feest , 1880 (dissertation)

De beteekenis van den Islam voor zijne belijders in East Indie , 1883

Mr. LWC van den Berg's beoefening van het mohammedanisch right , 1884

The Mahdi , 1885

Meccan Proverbs and Sayings , 1886 digitized

Mohammedaanschrecht en Rechtsswetenschap , 1886

De Fikh en de vergelijkende Rechtsswetenschap , 1886

Contributions récentes à la connaissance de l'Islam , 1886

De Islam , 1887

Mecca (German) 2 volumes + picture atlas. Haag: Nijhoff 1888–89 (facsimile re-print 2006 by Fines Mundi)

Vol. 1 The city and its masters , 1888 digitized
Vol. 2 From today's life , 1889 digitized
Picture atlas 1888 digitized

The Achehnese. 2 volumes ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 ) EJ Brill, Leiden 1906

The Holy War, Made in Germany , 1915 digitized

Promised writings , 1923–1927 (6 volumes) digital copies
Ambtelijke adviezen van C. Snouck Hurgronje 1889-1936. 3 delen. Uitgegeven by E. Gobée and C. Adriaanse. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1957-1965 ( Rijks Geschiedkundige Publikatiën . Small series, 33-35).

literature

Entry in the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland (Dutch)
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje . In: Article in the journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft , Volume 90, pp. 445 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje - Sources and full texts

Commons : Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 12, 2020 .
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 228.

personal data
SURNAME	Snouck Hurgronje, Christiaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hurgronje, Christiaan Snouck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch Arabist, Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oosterhout , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1936
Place of death	Leiden , Netherlands

[1] Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 12, 2020 .

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 228.