August Dillmann

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August Dillmann

Christian Friedrich August Dillmann (born April 25, 1823 in Illingen (Württemberg) , † July 4, 1894 in Berlin ) was a German orientalist and theologian . He was a son of the schoolmaster Elias Dillmann (1794–1877) and a brother of Christian von Dillmann (1829–1899).

Life

From 1840 Dillmann studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen . In 1844 he became a member of the Roigel Royal Society , a Tübingen student association . As a student of Heinrich Georg August Ewald, he devoted himself to oriental studies. After graduating as Dr. phil. he studied Ethiopian manuscripts in Paris , London and Oxford from 1846 to 1848 . After his return, Dillmann was in Tübingen repetent at the Tübinger Stift , in 1851 private lecturer and in 1853 associate professor .

In 1854 he moved in this capacity to the University of Kiel , where in 1860 he was given the full professorship of oriental languages. In 1864 Dillmann moved to the University of Giessen as a full professor of Old Testament exegesis . In 1869 he became Professor of the Old Testament and Oriental Languages at the University of Berlin as the successor to Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg . In 1875/76 he held the post of rector at Berlin University. At the International Congress of Orientalists in 1881 he was president. From 1872 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 1877 a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

As an excellent connoisseur of the Ethiopian language and literature, Dillmann became known as the new founder of Ethiopian philology . Masterpieces of detailed philological work are his commentaries on the Old Testament .

August Dillmann died in Berlin in 1894 at the age of 71 and was buried in the old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved. Dillmann's academic legacy and his library (approx. 5000 volumes) were donated by Paul Haupt (financed by the German-born tobacco dealer Georg Wilhelm Gail ) to the library of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1898 .

Fonts

  • Grammar of the Ethiopian language. 1857.
  • Lexicon linguae aethiopicae. 1865.
  • Chrestomathia aethiopica. 1866.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: August Dillmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member No. 26 of the Roigels, see the list of members of the Tübinger Königsgesellschaft Roigel, Stuttgart 1989, p. 4.
  2. ^ Member entry by August Dillmann at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 26, 2017.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. August (Christian Friedrich August) Dillmann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, p. 300.
  5. ↑ See the contemporary article ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the New York Times. October 6, 1895. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / query.nytimes.com
personal data
SURNAME Dillmann, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dillmann, Christian Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Illingen
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1894
Place of death Berlin