Erika Glassen

Erika Glassen (born June 2, 1934 in Malchow ) is a German orientalist .

Life

Erika Glassen, b. Wendt, studied art history in Greifswald and in Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel German and Islamic studies (Arabic, Persian, Turkish). She received her doctorate in 1968 with a thesis on the Islamic history of Persia and worked as a research assistant to Hans Robert Roemer at the Oriental Seminary at Freiburg University, where she also received her habilitation in 1977.

From 1981 to 1983 she worked as a consultant at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut and was its director from 1989 to 1994. Because of the Lebanese civil war , she built up the Orient Institute in Istanbul during this time , so that she could also familiarize herself with the culture of Turkey. Since 1994 she has been working in Freiburg again, where she retired in 1999.

As editor, she was responsible for the series “Beirut Texts and Studies”, “Bibliotheca Islamica”, together with Ulrich Haarmann , “Communications on the Social and Cultural History of the Islamic World” and “Working Materials on the Orient”.

Together with Jens Peter Laut , she was entrusted by the Bosch Foundation with the editing of the Turkish Library , in which she also compiled three anthologies and wrote some forewords.

Fonts (selection)

• The early Safavids according to Qāżī Aḥmad Qumī (= Islamic studies . 5). Schwarz, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1970 (at the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1968).
• The middle way. Studies on religious politics and religiosity of the later Abbasid period (= Freiburg Islam Studies. Vol. 8). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-03250-9 , p. 69, (At the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, habilitation paper, 1977).

literature

• Börte Sagaster, Karin Schweissgut, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Claus Schönig (eds.): Hoşsohbet. In honor of Erika Glassen (= Istanbul texts and studies. Vol. 25). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89913-836-8 .
• Literature and society: Small writings by Erika Glassen on Turkish literary history and on cultural change in modern Turkey . Edited by Jens Peter Laut with the assistance of Barbara Pusch. With an introduction by Erika Glassen and a preface by Jens Peter Laut. (= Istanbul texts and studies. Volume 31). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erika Glassen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Erika Glassen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Erika Glassen: "Huzur": indolence, peace of mind, social harmony. On the history of the Ottoman mentality , at Freiburg University (PDF; 1.8 MB)
• Erika Glassen , at the University of Freiburg
• Erika Glassen , at Unionsverlag