Gottfried Kosegarten (Orientalist)

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Kosegarten

Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (born September 10, 1792 in Altenkirchen (Rügen) , † August 18, 1860 in Greifswald ) was a German orientalist and linguist.

Life

As the son of the theologian Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , Gottfried Kosegarten first studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the Royal University of Greifswald . He became active in Corps Pomerania Greifswald in 1810 and distinguished himself twice as consenior and twice as senior . From 1812 he studied oriental languages ​​in Paris. In 1815 he returned to Greifswald as an adjunct of the theological and philosophical faculty. His lectures on the history of Pomerania prompted him to publish the old Pomeranian chronicle by Thomas Kantzow (Greifswald 1816–1817), which he later followed up with Pomeranian and Rügische historical monuments (Greifswald 1834) and the Codex Pomeraniae diplomaticus (Greifswald 1843).

Appointed professor of oriental languages ​​at the University of Jena in 1817 , he published the Moallaka by the Arabic poet Amr ben Kolthum (Jena 1819), then, in conjunction with Iken, the Persian fairy tale collection Tuti nameh (Stuttgart 1822) and translated the Indian poem Nala and Damayanti (Jena 1820). He also dealt with deciphering the ancient Egyptian scripts.

Called back to the University of Greifswald in 1824, he edited his Chrestomathia arabica (Leipz. 1828) based on Arabic manuscripts for Paris, Gotha and Berlin and began the unfinished editions of the Arabic annals of Taberi: Annales Taberlstanenses (Greifswald 1831-53), the collection of Arabic songs Kitab al Aghâni (vol. 1, das. 1846) and the Indian collection of fables Pantschatantra , of which the first part (Bonn 1848) contains the simpler review, while the second, of which only the first delivery (Greifswald 1859) appeared, the should be devoted to more detailed text.

His edition of the Arabic poem The Hudsailian poems (London 1854) and his dictionary of the Low German language (Vol. 1, Greifswald 1859/60) are also unfinished . Kosegarten also wrote a history of the University of Greifswald (Greifswald 1856 to 1857, 2 volumes) and made contributions to the knowledge of the Maltese-Arabic and German dialects. In the years 1829, 1838 and 1851 he was rector of the University of Greifswald. He bequeathed his numerous manuscripts and handwritten works of oriental and German literature to Greifswald University.

Kosegarten was married to Justine Susemihl (1805-1893). His son August (born July 12, 1836) died in 1867 as a result of a serious wound he suffered in the battle of Königgrätz .

Honors

Fonts

Gravestone in the old cemetery in Greifswald (2014)
  • Nala. An Indian seal . Jena 1820 ( e-copy ).
  • Comments on the Egyptian text of a papyrus from the Minutolian collection . Greifswald 1824 ( e-copy ).
  • Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten's life . Greifswald 1826 ( e-copy ).
  • Chrestomathia Arabica . Leipzig 1828 ( e-copy ( ).
  • Pomeranian and Rügische historical monuments . Greifswald 1834
  • News of the retrieval of the second High German version of his Pomeranian Chronicle, written by Thomas Kantzow himself . Greifswald 1842 e-copy ).
  • (together with Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Hasselbach and Friedrich Ludwig von Medem ) Codex Pomeraniae Diplomaticus. Volume 1, Koch, Greifswald 1843 ( e-copy ).
  • News of the origins and first appearance of the city of Greifswald . Greifswald 1846 ( e-copy ).
  • History of the University of Greifswald
  • Dictionary of the Low German language . Greifswald 1856 ( e-copy ).
  • Dictionary of the Low German language . Greifswald 1859 ( e-copy ).
  • Pomeranian Historical Monuments, Volume 2 Greifswald 1867 ( E-Copy ).

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53/12
  2. List of Rectors on www.uni-greifswald.de, accessed September 23, 2009 ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-greifswald.de
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Ludwig Kosegarten. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 17, 2015 .
  4. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Hans Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 9, 2015 (Russian).
  5. EG Gersdorf (Ed.): Leipziger Repertorium der Deutschen und Fremd Literatur. Vol. 3, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843, p. 45 ( digitized version ).
predecessor Office successor
Gustav Salomon Tillberg Rector of the University of Greifswald
1829
Franz Anton Niemeyer
predecessor Office successor
Franz Anton Niemeyer Rector of the University of Greifswald
1838
Johann August Grunert
predecessor Office successor
Karl Gottlob Semisch Rector of the University of Greifswald
1851
Conrad Matthies