Erich Bräunlich

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Erich Bräunlich (born September 15, 1892 in Hamburg , † September 19, 1945 in Vršac ; full name: Erich Ernst Emil Bräunlich ) was a German orientalist and philologist . He taught at the universities of Leipzig , Greifswald and Königsberg .

Life

In 1911 Erich Bräunlich began to study Semitic philology and ethnology in Halle , Leipzig and Vienna . He finished his studies after four years. In Leipzig he received his doctorate in philology in 1920 based on his dissertation The Well in Ancient Arabia . Two years later he completed his habilitation in Semitic philology with his writing Bistam ibn Quais, a pre-Islamic Bedouin leader and hero . In the same year he was employed as a private lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy.

In the following year, 1923, Bräunlich switched to the University of Greifswald as a private lecturer in oriental philology. His promotion to associate professor there took place in 1925.

Bräunlich finally became a full professor for his subject in 1930 at the University of Königsberg. In the next year, however, he returned to the Leipzig University in the same position. There he also functioned from 1937 to 1939 as dean of the Department of Philological History at the Faculty of Philosophy. As early as November 11, 1933, he had participated in the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

Bräunlich held the professorship until his death in 1945 in a concentration camp run by the Yugoslav government in Vojvodina at the age of 53. He had participated in the Max von Oppenheim Foundation for oriental work. All in all, however, his main area of ​​research was Arabic poetry and lexicography. In addition, together with the orientalist August Fischer, he published Islamica - a magazine for research into the languages, history and cultures of the Islamic peoples . Since November 1936 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Bisţām ibn Qais, a pre-Islamic Bedouin prince and hero (Leipzig 1923)
  • The well in ancient Arabia (Leipzig 1925)
  • Two Turkish World Maps from the Age of Great Discoveries (Leipzig 1937)
  • with August Fischer Schawähid indices: indices of rhyming words and the poets of the evocative verses explained in the Arabic Schwähid commentaries and in related works (Leipzig 1934)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Bräunlich, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, accessed on July 9, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Brownish, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bräunlich, Erich Ernst Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1945
Place of death Vršac