Hans Bauer (Semitist)

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Hans Bauer (born January 16, 1878 in Grasmannsdorf , † March 6, 1937 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Semitist .

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Bauer came from a Franconian farming family and attended grammar school in Bamberg from 1888 to 1897 . He then studied philosophy , theology , natural sciences and languages ​​at the Gregoriana in Rome. After being ordained a priest in 1903, he worked from 1904 to 1906 as a curator at the General Hospital in Bamberg.

In 1906, Bauer began studying Oriental Studies in Berlin , mainly devoting himself to the Semitic languages here and in Leipzig . Bauer's teachers included Friedrich Delitzsch , Eduard Sachau , Jakob Barth , Hermann Leberecht Strack , August Fischer , Heinrich Zimmer and Hans Stumme . In 1910 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the tenses in Semitic, their origin and design in the individual languages . In 1912 the habilitation followed in Halle. Shortly afterwards he converted to Protestantism.

In 1922, Bauer became an associate professor in Halle, then a full professor of comparative Semitic linguistics and Islamic studies that same year as the successor to Carl Brockelmann .

Bauer's achievements include two linguistic historical representations of Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic presented with Pontus Leander , the deciphering of the cuneiform writing by Ras Shamra (1930) and the translation of three books from al-Ghazālīs Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn .

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SURNAME Bauer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Johannes; Bauer, H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Semitist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Grasmannsdorf (Upper Franconia) , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1937
Place of death Halle (Saale) , Germany