Georg Wilhelm Freytag

The grave of Georg Wilhelm Freytag with his two wives and a son who died young at the old cemetery in Bonn.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (born September 19, 1788 in Lüneburg , † November 16, 1861 in Bonn ) was a German orientalist.

origin

He comes from a bookbinding family. His parents were Joachim Hartwig Freytag († 1831) and his wife Catharina Wittneben († 1834), daughter of the bookbinder Peter Wittneben and Ilsabe Bock .

Life

Freytag studied theology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and received a repetition position there in 1811 . In 1815 he became a brigade preacher in Königsberg (Prussia) and came to Paris . Here he made friends with Silvestre de Sacy and continued his studies of the Arabic , Persian and Turkish languages under his leadership even after Napoléon Bonaparte's final defeat in the battle of Waterloo , until he was appointed professor of oriental languages at the University of Bonn in 1819 . In 1829 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1831 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1835/36 he was the rector of the university.

Freytag's students included u. a. the Swiss theologian Louis Segond and Abraham Geiger , the founder of Reform Judaism in Germany.

family

He was married twice. He married his first wife in Königsberg in 1814, Alexandrine Henriette Barkowsky († 1847). The couple had two sons and three daughters. After her death in Bonn in 1848 he married Julie Courtan (* 1810, French ref.), A daughter of Carl Christian Courtan from Königsberg and Agnes Amalie Fautsch .

Fonts

His most important work is the four-volume Lexicon arabico-latinum (Halle 1830–1837). This is the greatly expanded edition of the work of the same name by Jacobus Golius ( Lexicon Arabico-Latinum . Leiden: Typis Bonaventuræ & Abrahami Elseviriorum, 1653).

More fonts

Carmen Arabicum (Halaf al-Aḥmār), 1814, digitized
Selecta ex historia Halebi , Paris 1819, digitized
Regnum Saahd-Aldanlae in oppido Halebo , 1820, digitized
Locmani fabulae , Bonn 1823
Hamâsa , 2 volumes, Bonn 1828–52
Representation of Arabic verse art , Bonn 1830, 2nd edition 1838, 1st edition
Liber Arabicus , 1832, digitized
Ebn Arabschah, Bonn 1832–52
Chrestomathia arabica , Bonn 1834
Concise Grammar of the Hebrew Language , 1835, digitized
Arabum proverbia , 3 volumes, Bonn 1838–43
Introduction to the study of the Arabic language up to Mohammed and partly later for general use also for those who do not practice Hebrew and Arabic . Bonn: Marcus, 1861 ( digitized version )

literature

Philipp Wolff : Freytag, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 373 f.
Johann W. Fück : Freytag, Georg Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 425 ( digitized version ).
Carl-August Espe, Conversations-Lexikon der Gegenwart , 1839, Volume 2, pp.222-223

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Wilhelm Freytag - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Georg Wilhelm Freytag in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 25, 2015 .

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 30, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Freytag, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freytag, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 1861
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Members of the previous academies. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 25, 2015 .

[2] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 30, 2015 .