Edward Henry Palmer

Edward Henry Palmer (born August 7, 1840 in Cambridge , † August 10, 1882 at Khelat et Nakhl ) was an English orientalist .

The Desert of the Exodus (1872)

Life

Edward Henry Palmer studied in Cambridge at St. John's College until 1867 . Between 1868 and 1869 he took part in the expedition of the Palestine Exploration Fund sent to explore the Sinai region and traveled together with Tyrphitt Drake to the Et-tib and Moab deserts until 1870 . In November 1871, Palmer was appointed Lord Almoners Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. He began studying the oriental languages ​​very early on and, almost entirely as an autodidact, acquired a great deal of knowledge in them. In 1878 he moved to London .

At the beginning of the Egyptian War in 1882, Palmer volunteered to go on an expedition to the Sinai Peninsula to win the Bedouins over to England. His efforts were initially successful, but he was captured on his second campaign through the desert with his companions Captain William John Gill and Lieutenant Harold Charrington on behalf of the Egyptian governor of Khelat et Nakhl and murdered near this post on August 10, 1882 .

In April 1883, Palmer's remains were interred in St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Works (selection)

• Ye Hole in ye Walle: a Legend of Walthamstowe Abbey. A merrie, metrical and monastical romaunce . Cambridge 1860.
• Oriental mysticism: a treatise on Sufiistic and unitarian theosophy of the Persians. Comp. from native sources . Cambridge 1867. (Reprint London 1969) Text Archive - Internet Archive
• An Address to the People of India on the death of Mir Syud Mohummed Khan Bahadoor… late Tehseeldar of Jubbulpore . In Arabic and English. (al-Marthiyah etc.). Cambridge 1868.
• A descriptive catalog of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge: with an appendix, containing a catalog of the Hebrew and samaritan MSS.in the same library . London 1870.
• The desert of the exodus . English: The scene of Israel's forty years of desert wandering: foot trips in the Sinai Peninsula and some neighboring areas; undertaken in conjunction with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund . Perthes, Gotha 1876.
• A history of the Jewish nation: from the earliest times to the present day . Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1883.
• A Concise Dictionary of the Persian Language . Trübner & Co., London 1876. (Numerous new editions)
• Haroun Alraschid , caliph of Baghdad . Marcus Ward, London 1881.
• The Arabic Manual. Comprising a condensed grammar of both the classical and modern Arabic, reading lessons,… vocabulary, etc. WH Allen & Co., London 1881. (Numerous new editions)
• Trübner's collection of Simplified Grammars of the principal Asiatic and European languages . Hertford, Trübner & Co., London 1882.
• Simplified grammar of Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani . Unabridged republication of the 3rd ed., London 1890. (Reprint: Dover Publ., Mineola NY 2002, ISBN 0-486-42475-8 )

A revised version of his Koran translation appeared in the collection edited by Friedrich Max Müller

• Sacred Books of the East . In Volume 6 and Volume 9; Oxford 1880. (Reprint: Delhi 1965)

Single issue:

• The Quran. Translation by EH Palmer. Oxford Univ. Press, London a. a. 1951. (Numerous other editions)

Transfers

He also wrote "Javidan i Hirad, the Wisdom of ages" a . a. Translated from Persian and translated Thomas Moore's poem Paradise and the Peri into Arabic verse.

• Zuhair Ibn-Mohammad, Bahā'-ad-Dín: The poetical works of Béhá-ed-Dín Zoheir of Egypt / with a metrical english transl., Notes and introd. by EH Palmer . Cambridge 1876.

literature

• Walter Besant : Life and achievements of Edward Henry Palmer . Murray, London 1883, archive.org
  • German edition: The life and work of Edward Henry Palmer, former professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and a fellow of St. John's College. Perthes, Gotha 1886 (abridged translation by M. Heusser).