Franz Taeschner

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Franz Gustav Taeschner (born September 8, 1888 in Reichenhall , † November 11, 1967 in Münster ) was a German orientalist and Islamic scholar .

Life

Taeschner was the son of the pharmacy owner Emil Taeschner. He studied oriental languages ​​and cultures and received his doctorate in 1912 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . Taeschner took part in the First World War and became a prisoner of war. In 1922 he completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He then worked there as a private lecturer and was appointed professor and director of the Oriental Seminary in 1935 as the successor to Anton Baumstark . He remained in this position until his retirement.

On May 1, 1933 Taeschner had become a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,494,580). He was also a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association and cultural warden of the Münster local group. In 1934 he published the propaganda pamphlet The Totality Claim of National Socialism and German Catholicism , in which he tried to prove the compatibility of National Socialism and Catholicism . In his History of the Arab World (Vowinckel, Heidelberg et al. 1944) he constructed from the history of early Islam an impossibility of coexistence with Jews and the superiority of the Semitic Arab race compared to the Semitic Jewish race.

During the Second World War Taeschner was briefly employed in the Foreign Office . After the end of the war, he tried to continue his apprenticeship in Münster, for which he used his private apartment.

In his teaching Taeschner devoted himself to the Arabic , Persian and Turkish languages , in his research he mainly dealt with the Turkish language, literature and cultural history up to the geography of Asia Minor in the Middle Ages , Persian-Turkish miniature painting and Ottoman historiography as well as development of brotherhoods and guilds in Islamic countries.

Publications

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Dörner (editor): From the Bosporus to the Ararat (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 7 = writings of the Hermann Bröckelschen Foundation. Volume 5). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0417-X , pp. 387-388.
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , pp. 1–2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 164.
  2. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 36.
  3. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 39, 159.
  4. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux Mondes Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 56-60.
  5. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux Mondes Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 366-367.
  6. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 191.
  7. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Taeschner, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taeschner, Franz Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenhall
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1967
Place of death Muenster