Franz von Erdmann
Franz von Erdmann (born March 15, 1793 as Friedrich Franz Ludwig Erdmann in Ludwigslust ; † February 2, July / February 14, 1862 greg. In Kazan ) was a German orientalist .
Life
Friedrich Franz Ludwig Erdmann was a son of pastor Johann Ernst Friedrich Erdmann, at that time a parish collaborator and inspector at the school teacher seminar in Ludwigslust and later prepositus in Schwaan ; the pastor and parliamentarian Johann Christoph August Gottfried Erdmann was his younger brother. Having trained in Lübeck , he became a student of the orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen from 1813 during his student years at the University of Rostock . He completed his studies at the University of Göttingen and qualified as a private lecturer for oriental languages in Rostock in 1818.
In the same year, through the mediation of Christian Martin Joachim Frähn, he received an appointment as full professor of oriental languages at the Imperial Kazan University .
In 1825 he undertook a scholarly journey to the Kama and the Orenburg governorate to investigate the Tatar antiquities there. In 1845 he resigned his teaching post and lived as a private scholar on the Feodorowka estate in the Nizhny Novgorod governorate .
Honors
Erdmann received the rank of Imperial Russian College Council in 1826, was raised to the nobility in 1827 and in 1833 Imperial Russian State Councilor.
Publications (selection)
- The beautiful from the castle of Muhammed Nisameddin the Gendscher. (after Nezāmi ) Kazan 1832 ( digitized version )
- Complete overview of the oldest Turkish, Tatar and Mogholian tribes, edited according to Raschid-ud-din's processes . Kazan 1841 ( digitized version )
- To the Mohammedan coinage . St. Petersburg 1856 ( digitized version )
- Temujin the unshakable . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1862 ( digitized version )
literature
- A. Polowzow: Russkj biografitscheskj slowar Volume 24, Isd. Imperatorskago Russkago istoritscheskago obschtschestwa, 1912, pp. 273-274. (Russian)
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2554 .
Web links
- Literature about Franz von Erdmann in the state bibliography MV
- SUB Goettingen
- Erik Amburger database at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
- About Franz von Erdmann on www.archive.gov.tatarstan.ru (ru.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erdmann, Franz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigslust |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1862 |
| Place of death | Kazan |