Christian Friedrich Seybold

Christian Friedrich Seybold, February 6, 1894

Christian Friedrich Seybold (born January 6, 1859 in Waiblingen ; † January 27, 1921 in Tübingen ) was a German orientalist and professor at the University of Tübingen.

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Christian Friedrich Seybold was born on January 6, 1859 in Waiblingen in Remstal, Württemberg, as the son of master cooper Daniel Seybold and his wife Katharina born. Böhringer born. After successfully completing the state examination, he was able to attend the Evangelical Seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren and in 1878 joined the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . Here he studied theology and oriental languages . From a very early age, his main interest lay in the field of Oriental Studies , where he was shaped in particular by Professors Albert Socin , Rudolf von Roth and Alfred von Gutschmid . In 1883 the doctorate and the first theological service examination took place. He then spent a few months in Spain to study Arabic manuscripts and then worked as a tutor in Heilbronn and Maulbronn until 1886. In 1886 he became private secretary and language teacher of the Brazilian Emperor Peter (Dom Pedro) II (1825-1891), who devoted himself to various private scholarly studies in addition to his government office. Seybold taught him Hebrew , Greek , Arabic and Sanskrit and accompanied the regent on his extensive trips abroad. After the emperor's death in 1892, Seybold took on a teaching position for oriental studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1893 his habilitation took place. In 1897 Seybold became an associate professor and in 1901 a full professor of oriental studies in Tübingen.

In his academic work, Seybold mainly dealt with the edition and translation of Arabic manuscripts. He also published a catalog of the Arabic manuscripts in the Tübingen University Library . Particularly noteworthy is his occupation with the indigenous Guarani language, which goes back to his stay in Brazil . a. is common in Paraguay.

Works (selection)

• (as editor): Kitāb Asrār al-ʿarabīya / taʾlīf Kamāl-ad-Dīn Abi-'l-Barakāt ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-Abī-Saʿīd al-Anbārī an-Naḥwī , Brill, Leiden 1886.
• Abañeeme. Guia práctica para aprender el idioma Guaraní , o.O. 1890.
• (as editor): Brevis Linguae Guarani Grammatica Hispanicae a Paulo Restivo secundum libros Antonii Ruiz de Montoya et Simonis Bandini, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1890.
• Linguae guarani grammatica, hispanice. A reverendo patre Jesuita Paulo Restivo secundum libros Antonii Ruiz de Montoya, Simonis Bandini aliorumque adjecto particularum lexico anno MDCCXXIV in civitate Sanctae Mariae Majoris edita et "Arte de la lengua guarani" inscripta , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1892.
• (as editor): Lexicon Hispano-Guaranicum "Vocabulario de la lengua Guarani" inscriptum a Paulo Restivo secundum Vocabularium Antonii Ruiz de Montoya anno MDCCXXII in Civitate S. Marie Majoris denuo ed. et adauctum, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1893.
• (as editor): Kitāb aš-Šamārīḫ fī ʿilm at-tārīḫ / taʾlīf al-Ǧalāl as-Suyūṭī (The Dates on the Science of Chronology) , Brill, Leiden 1894.
• (as editor): Ibn-al-Atîr's (Maǵd Aldîn al Mubârak) Kunja dictionary titled Kitâb al Muraṣṣa ', Felber, Weimar 1896.
• Latin Arabic glossary. Ex unico qui exstat codice Leidensi undecimo saeculo in Hispania conscripto , Felber, Berlin 1910.
• (as editor): The Druze script: Kitab alnoqat Waldawair. "The book of points and circles" after the Tübingen and Munich Codex , Kirchhain 1902.
• (as translator): History of Sul and Schumul. Unknown tale from the Thousand and One Nights; after the unique Tübingen with handwriting facsimile , Spirgatis, Leipzig 1902.
• (as editor): Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum / Severus Ben el-Moqaffaʿ , Typographeo Catholico, Beryti 1904/1910.
• Directory of the Arabic manuscripts of the Royal University Library of Tübingen . Volume 1 (No. 1-46), Tübingen 1907.
• (as editor): Severus ibn al Muqaffa '. Alexandrian Patriarchal History from S. Marcus to Michael I 61–767; based on the oldest Hamburg manuscript written in 1266 in Arabic Urtex t, Gräfe, Hamburg 1912 (publications of the Hamburg City Library, Volume 3).
• (as editor): Fleischer's letters to Hassler. From the years 1823 to 1870 based on the Ulm originals , Mohr, Tübingen 1914.

Literature / individual references

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Volume 9, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 417.
• Josef van Ess : Christian Friedrich Seybold. Professor of Oriental Studies 1859–1921 . In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia, Volume 14 (1980), pp. 416–432.
• Obituary by Paul Volz . In: Württembergischer Nekrolog for 1920 and 1921, Stuttgart 1928, pp. 157-165.