Hans-Joachim Kissling

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Hans-Joachim Kißling (born September 8, 1912 in Giesing (Munich) , † October 10, 1985 in Gauting ) was a German orientalist and Turkologist.

Life

After graduating from the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich , he studied Altaic languages , Iranian languages and general constitutional law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1931 he became a member of the Corps Transrhenania . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Vienna , the University of Istanbul and the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1935 he passed the state examination in Breslau. With a doctoral thesis on Aschikpaschazade he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD . His teachers included Gotthelf Bergsträsser , Fritz Hommel , Karl Süßheim , Franz Taeschner , Wilhelm Geiger , Herbert Jansky, Theodor Seif , above all Friedrich Giese , Carl Brockelmann and the constitutional lawyer Hans Helfritz . In 1935 he went to the Oriental Institute of Leipzig University as an assistant . The marriage in 1939 resulted in three daughters.

From 1940 he took part in the Artillery Regiment 50 in Chemnitz in the Second World War ( Feldwebel d. R.). In the meantime, he has been called up twice for activities in the Foreign Office. After the end of the war initially a private scholar in Munich, he completed his habilitation in 1949 at the University of Munich. After six years as a private lecturer , he was appointed associate professor in 1955 . As a full professor, he took over the chair for history and culture of the Middle East and Turkish studies in 1959 . In 1980 he retired . Almost blind, he died at the age of 73 after a long and serious illness. He found his final resting place in the Ostfriedhof (Munich) .

The main focus of his academic work was Turkish linguistics, especially the study of older Turkish language monuments, as well as the publication of Ottoman-Turkish grammar, questions of the topography of the Turkish city and its position in law, economy and society. His studies of Islamic saints and Turkish-Islamic men's associations were groundbreaking.

Honors

Works

  • Ottoman-Turkish grammar . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1960
  • 'Ušâqîzâde's biographies of famous scholars and men of God of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century (Zeyl-i Šaqâ'iq) Ibrāhīm Ibn-'Abdalbāqī . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1965
  • The Last Great Muslim Empires - History of the Muslim World , 3 volumes, translated by Frank Ronald Charles Bagley. Leiden 1960; 1969 (with prefaces by Jane Hathaway, Arthur Waldron, and Richard M. Eaton); 1996 (with introduction by Ricard M. Eaton) digitized
  • Collection of Turkish sayings . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1974
  • Legal problems in Christian-Muslim relations, especially in the age of the Turkish wars . Graz 1974
  • Problems of Older Ottoman Black Sea Cartography . Munich, 1978
  • Background problems in Islamist historical research . Graz 1979
  • Serta Balcanica-Orientalia Monacensia . Trofenik, Munich 1981
  • Dissertationes Orientales et Balcanicae collectae, Part 1: Dervishism . 1986
  • Dissertationes Orientales et Balcanicae collectae, Part 2: Sultan Bajezid II and the West . 1988
  • Dissertationes Orientales et Balcanicae collectae, Part 3: The Ottomans and Europe . 1991

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
  • Hans Georg Majer: Hans Joachim Kißling (1912–1985). In: Der Islam , Vol. 65, Heft 2 (1988), pp. 191–199, doi : 10.1515 / islm.1988.65.2.191 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 177/384.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The language of the Aschikpaschazade - a study on the Ottoman-Turkish language history
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Contributions to the knowledge of Thrace in the 17th century .
personal data
SURNAME Kissling, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and Turkologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Giesing (Munich)
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1985
Place of death Gauting