Hans Ellenberg

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Hans Ludwig Gustav Ellenberg (born April 7, 1877 in Hamburg-Eilbeck , † September 7, 1949 in Erfurt ) was a German orientalist and journalist. His best-known language student was Annemarie Schimmel .

Life

Ellenberg was born in Hamburg in 1877 as the son of a music teacher and began studying oriental languages ​​at high school at the age of twelve. At the age of 15, however, he first began his journalistic career in Hamburg as editor for the entertainment section and art criticism in liberal papers. It was only at the age of 28 that he passed his matriculation examination in 1915 as an external student. As a Landsturmmann, he then did his one-year military service. This was followed by studies of oriental languages, archeology and philosophy in Kiel as a working student and in Königsberg . In 1920 he received his doctorate in Kiel , four years later Ellenberg became editor of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Erfurt and lived there until his death.

From 1930 to 1934 he stayed to study languages ​​in the Arabian Orient and repeated the trips until 1939. After Ellenberg had passed the editing examination in Berlin in 1933, he was hired by the University of Jena for the winter semester of 1934/35 . He taught " Egyptian Vulgar Arabic ", written Arabic and Turkish to a few listeners . During the Second World War , he was a compulsory translator in the foreign letter inspection center in Berlin for Arabic and Turkish. He also worked as a private teacher and as a lecturer at the Erfurt adult education center.

After 32 years as editor, the 60-year-old was dismissed in January 1937, which did not directly affect his teaching activity, and later even supported it. Because of a negative attitude to race theory and not belonging to the NSDAP , Ellenberg was removed from the Thuringian Gau newspaper . Even if the bachelor's main source of income dried up as a result, this circumstance helped defend the position of lecturer after the collapse of the Nazi regime. Dean Carl Wesle, for example, expressed himself positively about Ellenberg in an undated description: "As a lecturer, Ellenberg developed a thankful and well-recognized work." In recognition of his services as a lecturer, the University of Jena awarded him the title of "Professor" in 1947.

The student Annemarie Schimmel

His two popular scientific works Orient (1931) and Geh 'mit mir in den Orient (1932) should have been known. But his student, the Islamic scholar and peace prize winner Annemarie Schimmel , has become much more famous . Born in Erfurt in 1922, she began studying with Ellenberg at the adult education center in Erfurt in 1937:

“Shortly after all this was over, in October 1937, I once again complained to my friend Dorle about what I would give to learn an oriental language. 'Oh', she said, 'Uncle Kraus (our Latin teacher) knows someone who can speak Arabic!' Listening and recording were one thing. I learned there is a journalist named Dr. Ellenberg (nickname ' Efendi '), who also taught Arabic in Jena. The parents said you could see one day, so one day Mama went to see him with me. The hat I wore back then to appear older is what I would describe as far too foolish for my current age! Ellenberg, a Hamburger, then in his mid-sixties, wanted to see how it all went - and after the first lesson it was all over to me: The week consisted only of days before Thursday and after Thursday, Arabic day. I was not allowed to talk about my unnational escapades, but my parents took an active part in my studies. Until her death, Mama could still use the vocabulary of the first lesson of the Great Harder - a grammar whose abbreviated form, the Harder- Paret , I was to work on in 1967.

Efendi was exactly the teacher an enthusiastic fifteen year old girl needs. He came from the Georg Jacobs school , who had been particularly concerned with realities, not so much with grammatical hair-splitting or with theological and philosophical problems; he also gave Turkish a good place in the study of oriental studies. Ellenberg knew and loved the Orient and was enthusiastic about its culture. Each week there was not only a grammar lesson, but also an introduction to Islamic studies and history; Every week I was allowed to take one or two specialist books with me, which my parents also read with great interest. "

- Annemarie Schimmel, 2003

Ulrich Zwiener also addressed the school roots in his appreciation of Schimmel in the context of her guest lecture at the Collegium Europaeum Jenense .

Memberships

Works

  • Islamic arts and crafts according to Qazwînî and Thaʿâlibî , Kiel 1920 (Univ.-Diss.).
  • Orient , Mitteldt.-Verl.-AG Halle u. a. 1931.
  • Go with me to the Orient , Drei-Tannen-Verlag Fiedler Olbernhau in Saxony 1932.
  • Sultan, Seraskier and soldiers. Moltke in Turkey (= Germans all over the world, No. 12), Neuer Buchverlag Dresden 1937.

swell

  • Jena University Archives (UAJ), D 610 (PA Hans Ellenberg), BA 489, BA 2167.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annemarie Schimmel: Orient and Occident. My west-east life . CH Beck, Munich 2002, p. 21 f.
  2. ↑ Reading excerpt from Annemarie Schimmel: Morgenland und Abendland. Chapter: A youth in Erfurt, pp. 20–22.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Zwiener: Islamic-European bridges and the work of Annemarie Schimmel, in: Annemarie Schimmel: Islam and Europe. Cultural bridges (= writings of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense Jena, issue 26), Erlangen 2002, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Ellenberg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellenberg, Hans Ludwig Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Eilbeck
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1949
Place of death Erfurt