Eduard Vilmar

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Eduard Vilmar (born December 4, 1832 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ; † March 30, 1872 in Greifswald ) was a German professor of theology and oriental languages .

origin

His parents were Wilhelm Vilmar (1804-1884), pastor of the Old Town Church in Rotenburg and later as Metropolitan in Melsungen one of the leaders of the so-called Renitenten in Niederhessen , and his wife Johanne geb. Perch.

Life

After completing his school education in Rotenburg, Eduard attended high school in Hersfeld from 1848 to 1850 , where he graduated from high school in autumn 1850 , and then studied theology, first in Marburg and then until 1854 in Halle . There he acquired at the theologian and orientalist Hermann Hupfeld his basic knowledge of oriental languages he then at 1855-1858 Johann Gildemeister in Bonn intensified and in 1857 in his dissertation on the ancient Arab grammarians presented Qutrub with which he became a doctor of philosophy doctorate .

He found his first professional job at the high school in Kassel , but after a short time he switched to the Hessian Scholarship Institute in Marburg as a repetitionist . There he obtained a licentiate in Protestant theology in 1860 with his dissertation “De Nasiraeatus Ratione” . In 1865 he published his work on the annals of the 'Abu-'l-Fath ibn' Abi-'l-Hasan as-Samiri, written in the 14th century, using the Arabic original and a Latin translation of this strange chronicle with the Samaritan saga of of the Greek translation of the Torah . Shortly thereafter, this helped him to be appointed associate professor of theology and oriental languages ​​at the Philipps University of Marburg and finally in 1867 to be appointed full professor of theology ( Old Testament scholar ) at the University of Greifswald .

Vilmar died in 1872 at the age of only 39 from the effects of several operations and a kidney disease. His marriage to Emilie born in 1867. Abée, daughter of former Hessian Minister Conrad Abée sprang born in 1870 son William.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The widely mentioned place of birth Rothenburg ob der Tauber is incorrect.
  2. ↑ Other occasionally mentioned data are incorrect; see u. a. the curriculum vitae of his son Wilhelm Vilmar, which he added to his dissertation, which was accepted in Marburg in 1894 and published in 1896 ( Wilhelm Vilmar: Dietrich von Pleningen: A translator from the Heidelberg humanist circle. (Inaugural dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg) Marburg, 1896, p . 70 )
  3. ^ A brother of the conservative Lutheran theologian August Vilmar .
  4. ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Geschichte_des_Gymnasium_zu_Hersfeld_von_1817-1876/Anhang_III
  5. ↑ ʿAbū ʿAlī Muhammad ibn al-Mustanīr called Qutrub (also Kutrub), d. 881. ( http://worldcat.org/identities/np-muhammad%20ibn%20ahmad%20al%20mustanir$called%20kutrub/ )
  6. ↑ http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-309719242/
  7. ↑ Eduard Vilmar: Abulfathi Annales Samaritani. Perthes, Gotha, 1865
personal data
SURNAME Vilmar, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran university professor, theologian and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg on the Fulda
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1872
Place of death Greifswald