Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt

Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (born June 6, 1943 in Göttingen ) is a German Arabist .

Life

Biesterfeldt in 1970 with the publication of an Arabic translation of the pharmaceutical font Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequuntur at the University of Göttingen PhD . Afterwards he was a speaker at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut . In 1985 he qualified as a professor at the Ruhr University Bochum for oriental studies . From 1985 to 2008 he was the head of "Arabicums" at the State Language Institute NRW in Bochum. He was later appointed adjunct professor of Arabic studies . He has been retired since 2008. Together with Sebastian Günther he is the editor of the series "Islamic History and Civilization" (Leiden: Brill).

Biesterfeldt's research focuses on Graeco-Arabica ( Galen translation, medical terminology , Graeco-Arabic lexicography as part of the development of the Greek and Arabic Lexicon by Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas ) and the Arabic-Islamic encyclopaedics and scientific culture.

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): Galen's treatise that the forces of the soul follow the mixtures of the body in Arabic translation . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1973 (Treatises for the customer of the Orient, Vol. 40, 4). - Publication of the dissertation Göttingen 1970.
• Ibn Farīġūn's chapter on Arabic grammar in his Compendium of the sciences. In: Kees Versteegh , Michael G. Carter (Eds.), Studies in the history of Arabic grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic Grammar, Nijmegen, April 27– May 1, 1987. John Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1990, pp. 49-56.
• On the medical terminology of the Arab-Islamic Middle Ages. In: Danielle Jacquart (ed.), La formation du vocabulaire scientifique et intellectuel dans le Monde arabe. Editions Brepols, Turnhout 1994, 66-90.
• The pure Arabic. In: Das Mittelalter 2/1 (1997), pp. 15–28.
• Arabic-Islamic encyclopedias. Forms and functions . In: Christel Meier (Ed.): The Encyclopedia in Change from the High Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age . Fink, Munich 2002, pp. 43–84.
• Hellenistic Sciences and Arab-Islamic Culture. In: Jürgen Dummer, Meinolf Vielberg (ed.), Mission Statement Science? Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003 (Classical Studies Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Studies on Antiquity and Your Afterlife, Vol. 8), pp. 9–37 online
• Contribution in: It is a wild people ... Sermon (Ps.-Athanasius) . Coptic-Arabic-German text edition with comments by Detlev Groddek, Theodor Lindken, Heinz Schaefer. With a contribution by Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt. Oros Verlag, Altenberge 2004 ( Corpus Islamo-Christianum , Series Coptica, Vol. 1).
• Gerhard Endress on 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, Ss. XV-XIX online .
• Encyclopedia and belles lettres in the Arab-Islamic Middle Ages. In: Theo Stammen, Wolfgang Weber (Ed.), Knowledge Assurance, Knowledge Ordering and Knowledge Processing. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004 (Colloquia Augustana, Vol. 18), pp. 71-80, online
• Ibn Farīghūn on communication. In: Peter Adamson (ed.), In the Age of al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth / Tenth century. Warburg Institute , London 2008, pp. 265-276.

Web links

• Personal page, University of Bochum (with photograph and list of publications)
• Entry in the RI-Opac of the Regesta Imperii