Friedrich Spiegel (Orientalist)

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Friedrich von Spiegel (born July 11, 1820 in Kitzingen , † December 15, 1905 in Munich ) was a German orientalist , Iranist and expert on the Zendavesta .

Life

Spiegel devoted himself to oriental language studies in Erlangen , Leipzig and Bonn , conducted research in the libraries of Copenhagen, London and Oxford from 1842–47 and was professor of oriental languages ​​at the University of Erlangen from 1849 . After going through his editions of Kammavākya and (Bonn 1841) Anecdota palica (Leipzig 1845), the study of the then little known Pālisprache and Southern Buddhism had made an important service, he focused his research on the Iranian languages and the Zoroastrian religion and provided a critical edition of the most important parts of the Zendavesta including the old Pahlavi translation of the same and a complete Germanization, the first scientific translation of this important religious book (Leipz. 1852–63, 3 vols.), to which he wrote a commentary on the Avesta (Leipzig 1865– 69, 2 volumes) and a grammar of the old Bactrian language (Leipzig 1867).

In 1848 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ; since 1859 he belonged to this academy as a foreign member. Since 1862 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and since 1870 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Works

  • Kammavākya - Liber de officiis sacerdotum Buddhicorum. Bonn 1841.
  • Chrestomathia persica. Leipzig 1845.
  • Grammar of the parsi language. Leipzig 1851.
  • Introduction to the traditional scripts of the Parsees. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1856-1860.
  • The old Persian cuneiform inscriptions in the basic text, with translation, grammar and glossary. Leipzig 1862. 2nd edition 1881.
  • Erān, the land between the Indus and Tigris. Berlin 1863.
  • Aryan studies. Leipzig 1873.
  • Erānian antiquity. 3 volumes. Leipzig 1871–1878 (summary of his research).
  • Comparative grammar of the Alteran languages. Leipzig 1882.
  • The Aryan Period and Its Conditions. Leipzig 1887.

Numerous smaller works, e.g. B. about the Iranian tribal constitution, about the life of Zoroasters, etc. a., he published in the treatises of the royal. Bavarian Academy, in the articles on comparative linguistic research , in the journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft and other journals.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich von Spiegel (obituary) . In: Session reports of the philosophical-philological and historical classes of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich . Year 1906, p. 365–368 ( online [PDF; accessed April 19, 2017]).
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ludwig Friedrich Ernst Spiegel. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 9, 2015 .

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SURNAME Spiegel, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiegel, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist, Iranist and connoisseur of the Zendavesta
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzingen
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1905
Place of death Munich