Friedrich August Rosen

Friedrich August Rosen (born September 2, 1805 in Hanover , † September 12, 1837 in London ) was a German orientalist and Sanskritist .

Life

Rosen studied law and theology in Leipzig from 1822 to 1824. In 1824 he switched to studying Sanskrit at the University of Berlin. From 1828 to 1831 he was Professor of Oriental Languages at University College London. In 1831 he resigned. For several years he made a living by homeschooling and desk work. In 1832 he turned down an offer to Oxford because he was unwilling to accept the Anglican principles of the traditional university. From 1834 he was back in the service of the University of London. This time he was awarded the professorship for his actual subject, Sanskrit. In 1832 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and in 1834 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Rosen was the son of Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen , half-brother of the Iranist Georg Rosen and an uncle of the orientalist and later German Foreign Minister Friedrich Rosen .

Act

As an orientalist, Rosen explored the languages of the Middle East and India. His focus was on the ancient Indian language Sanskrit. In the last years of his life he had supported important European works on Sanskrit with references. He translated a medieval treatise on mathematics from Arabic into English. Most recently he worked on the translation of the Rig Veda , the oldest collection of texts in Hinduism, from Sanskrit into Latin. Rosen was in lively correspondence with German scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt and Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel as well as the three most important German Sanskrit researchers Franz Bopp , August Wilhelm Schlegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt . Schlegel and Humboldt discovered errors in Rosen's work, but their giftedness was beyond question.

Fonts

as editor: Radices sanscritae. Dümmler, Berlin 1827, ( digitized version ).
as editor: Rig-Vedæ Specimen. Taylor, London 1830.
as editor: The Algebra of Mohammed ben Musa. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, London 1831, ( digitized ).
as editor: Rigveda-Sanhita, liber primus, sanscritè et latinè. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, London 1838, ( digitized ).

literature

Johannes Klatt: Rosen, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 192-195.
Gregor Pelger: Rosen, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 50 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich August Rosen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Friedrich August Rosen. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 20, 2015 .
^ Members of the previous academies. Friedrich August Rosen. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on October 20, 2015 .
↑ Meier, Frank: Die Detmolder Familie Rosen, in: Heimatland Lippe, magazine of the Lippischen Heimatbund and the Landesverband Lippe, August 2016, p. 180 f

personal data
SURNAME	Rosen, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orientalist and Sanskritist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1837
Place of death	London

[1] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Friedrich August Rosen. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 20, 2015 .

[2] Members of the previous academies. Friedrich August Rosen. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on October 20, 2015 .

[3] Meier, Frank: Die Detmolder Familie Rosen, in: Heimatland Lippe, magazine of the Lippischen Heimatbund and the Landesverband Lippe, August 2016, p. 180 f