Gerhard Endress

Gerhard Endress - internationally also written Endress - (born October 23, 1939 in Friedrichsdorf , Taunus ) is a German Arabist and professor emeritus for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

After receiving his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1965, Endressess was a research assistant at the Oriental Seminary there, where he completed his habilitation in 1972. From 1975 until his retirement he held a professorship for Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Bochum.

Gerhard Endreß has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 1983 . In 2002 he was visiting professor at the École pratique des hautes études , Paris .

His main areas of work are philosophy and the history of science in the Arab- Islamic culture of the Middle Ages and Arabic philology, in particular classical Arabic literature. Graeco-Arabica , the Greek-Arabic translation and tradition, is a special area that only a few scholars have worked on : Endress is the editor of an Arabic translation by the Neo-Platonist Proklos and, together with Dimitri Gutas, editor of the Greek and Arabic Lexicon .

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): Proclus Arabus. Twenty sections from the Institutio theologica in Arabic translation . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1973
• The scientific literature. In: Helmut Gätje , Wolfdietrich Fischer (Ed.): Outline of Arabic Philology . Volume 2: Literary Studies. Wiesbaden 1987, pp. 400-506, and Volume 3: Supplement. ibid 1992, pp. 3-152.
• The Arab-Islamic Philosophy of the Middle Ages. A research report. In: Journal for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences. Vol. 5, 1989, pp. 1-47.
• (with Dimitri Gutas): A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex): Materials for a Dictionary of the Medieval Translations from Greek into Arabic . Suffer. Brill 1992- ( Handbook of Oriental Studies , First Section: The Near and Middle East, Vol. 11)
• The islam. An introduction to its history . Munich: CH Beck 1997, ISBN 3-406-42884-3
• Islam: an historical introduction , Edinburgh 1988, 2nd edition 2002, Google Books
• Appreciation of Fuat Sezgins 1967-2007 in 13 volumes of published history of Arabic literature . Tradition and awakening in Frankfurter Rundschau and Qantara, 2004
• Islam in data , Munich: CH Beck 2006, ISBN 3-406-54096-1 , Google books

literature

• Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt : Gerhard Endress for his 65th birthday. In: Rüdiger Arnzen , Jörn Thielmann (Eds.): Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Studies on the sources, contents and influences of Islamic civilization and Arabic philosophy and science. Dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his sixty-fifth birthday. Peeters, Leuven / Paris / Dudley MA, 2004 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Vol. 139), pp. XV – XIX ( online ). (Biographical and historical research appreciation) .

Web links

• Portrait of Gerhard Endreß on the website of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts
• Rüdiger Arnzen , Yury Arzhanov, Gerhard Endreß: Greek Science in Arabic (PDF; 4.6 MB) - (with photographs of the authors)