Georg Graf (orientalist)

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Georg Graf (born March 15, 1875 in Munzingen (Wallerstein) , † September 18, 1955 in Dillingen an der Donau ) was a German orientalist . He was a representative of the science of the Christian Orient .

life and work

After studying at the Lyceum in Dillingen , he was ordained a priest in 1898. Until 1930 he was mainly active in pastoral care. In 1905 he received his doctorate in Munich Dr. phil. with a study of Christian-Arabic literature . Through this work he came into contact with the magazine al-Machriq , founded by Louis Cheikhô . In 1910 and 1911 he stayed in Jerusalem and studied Christian literature in monasteries, combined with a short stay in Beirut .

In 1918 he obtained a doctorate in theology from the University of Freiburg with a thesis on Marqus Ibn al-Qunbar ( An attempt at reform within the Coptic Church in the twelfth century ), which was published in 1923. Further research stays in Egypt , Syria and Palestine followed. In 1930 he was appointed honorary professor for Christian-Oriental literatures at the theological faculty of the University of Munich . In 1946 he was appointed papal house prelate .

In total, Graf published over 270 books, articles and publications on the Christian Orient . He published a large number of previously unpublished Arabic works. For a long time he was editor of the Arabic series of the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium and the journal Oriens Christianus . His main work is the five-volume history of Christian Arabic literature (Vatican City 1944–53).

Georg Graf's estate is now in Munich, part of it in the Bavarian State Library .

Fonts

  • History of Christian Arabic Literature . (5 volumes) Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944–1953. Digitized . Spanish translation: Historia de la literatura arabe cristiana, vol. 1. Las traducciones. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 2017. ISBN 978-84-220-1986-2 .
  • Christian-Arabic literature: up to the Frankish period (end of the 11th century); a literary-historical sketch , Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder 1905. - X, 74 p. (Strasbourg theological studies; 7.1)
  • Georg Graf; Christian Orient and Swabian homeland; small fonts; on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the author , new ed. and a. by Hubert Kaufhold . Würzburg: Ergon 2005 [Beirut texts and studies; 107] ISBN 3-89913-488-5

literature

See also

CEDRAC Research and Documentation Center for Christian-Arab Heritage in Beirut

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personal data
SURNAME Count, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Munzingen (Wallerstein)
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1955
Place of death Dillingen on the Danube