Christian Martin Joachim Frähn

Christian Frähn

Christian Martin Frähn (* 4. June 1782 in Rostock , † August 16 ^{. Jul} / 28. August 1851 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a German Orientalist and numismatists .

Life

Frähn, son of a tailor like his teacher Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734-1815), studied oriental languages in Rostock as well as in Göttingen and Tübingen , became a private lecturer at the university of his hometown in 1806, professor of oriental languages in Kazan in 1807 , and a member of the in 1817 Academy of Sciences and Senior Librarian in St. Petersburg. He was the founder of the Academy's Asian Museum and its director from 1818 to 1842. In 1831 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1834 as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

He died as a councilor on August 16, 1851 (according to the Gregorian calendar: August 28).

Awards

Title Real Council of State
1835: Russian Order of Saint Anne , 2nd class with the imperial crown
1835: Order of St. Stanislaus , 2nd class
1848: Order of the Red Eagle , 2nd class

Works (selection)

Arabic linguistics, Mohammedan history and numismatics have found in him one of the most thorough authors. Among other things, he wrote:

Numophylacium Orientale Pototianum . Riga: Hartmann, 1813.
Contributions to the Mohammedan coinage from St. Petersburg: or selection of rare and strange, up to then unknown Mohammedan coins from the cabinet of P. Pflug . Berlin, 1820.
Antiquitatis Muhammedanae monumenta varia . St. Petersburg 1820-22, 2 vol.
Ibn-Foszlan's and other Arabs reports on the Russians of earlier times . Frähn, Christian Martin. - Frankfurt am Main: Inst. For the History of Arab.-Islamic Science, 1994, Reprint of the ed. St. Petersburg 1823 / Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
- Hamburg: Buske, 1976. Reprint d. 1823 edition.
Numi kufici: ex variis museis selecti . St. Petersburg 1823.
Ch. M. Fraehnii Recensio numorum Muhammedanorum Academiae imp. scient. Petropolitanae . St. Petersburg 1826, addendum 1855.
About old South-Siberian grave finds with inscriptions from a certain date . St. Petersburg 1837.
Collection of small treatises on Muslim numismatics . Leipzig 1839 (new collection, Petersburg 1844).
Miscelles from the area of Oriental literature St. Petersburg: 1840.
Cosmographie de Dimeschky . St. Petersbourg: Impr. De l'Acad. Impér. des Sciences, 1866.

Bernhard Dorn edited “Opusculorum postumorum ...” from his estate (2 vols., St. Petersburg 1855, 1877).

Correspondence

Frähn's seal, used on a letter to Henzi in March 1826.
Text: Top line: ???
Bottom line: Frähn, year 1808.

Frähn had a lively correspondence with other scientists. Among them was Rudolf Henzi , professor in Tartu.

Individual evidence

↑ See the entry of Christian Martin Joachim Frähn's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

↑ 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. 84.

^ Members of the previous academies. Christian Martin Joachim Frähn. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 24, 2015 .

literature

Heinrich Klenz: Frähn, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 674-676.
Johann W. Fück: Frähn, Christian Martin Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 309 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Frähn, Christian Martin Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Orientalist and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1851
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] See the entry of Christian Martin Joachim Frähn's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

[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. 84.

[3] Members of the previous academies. Christian Martin Joachim Frähn. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 24, 2015 .