Hans Robert Roemer
Hans Robert Roemer (born February 18, 1915 in Trier ; † July 15, 1997 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German orientalist and Islamic scholar .
Life
Roemer studied law at the University of Bonn from 1934 and went to Berlin in 1936, where he studied law and oriental languages (Persian, Arabic, Turkish). Under the influence of the Iranist Walther Hinz , he switched to oriental studies and went with this to Göttingen in 1937, where he received his doctorate in 1938 ( The decline of Iran after the death of Ismail the Cruel (1577–1581) ). In 1950 he completed his habilitation in Mainz ( The state letters of the Timurid period. The Saraf-nama of Abdallah Marwarid in critical evaluation (= publications of the Oriental Commission Volume 3). Wiesbaden 1952). There he was from 1949 to 1956 director of the Academy of Sciences and Literature and from 1956 an adjunct professor. From 1950 to 1956 he edited the publications of the Oriental Commission (VOK) of the Mainz Academy with Helmuth Scheel and also from 1952 to 1956 the magazine of the German Oriental Society and the treatises of the Customer of the Orient .
In 1956 he went to the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo as a consultant for oriental studies and began there in 1960 with the publication of the series of sources on the history of Islamic Egypt . 1961 to 1963 he was founding director of the Orient Institute in Beirut. In 1963 he became professor of Islamic studies and the history of the Islamic peoples at the University of Freiburg , where he also founded the Orientalist seminar. He was editor of the Freiburg Islam Studies . In 1983 he retired.
His focus was the indexing of the numerous largely unprocessed sources on Islamic history, for example in Iran and Egypt from the Middle Ages and early modern times. In particular, he dealt with the Safavids and Timurids in Iran and Central Asia and Mamluks in Egypt.
On his initiative, representatives of the German Oriental Society (DMG) were set up in the appropriate German Archaeological Institutes , initially in Istanbul and Cairo, and he was the founder and first director of the Orient Institute of the DMG in Beirut. He was managing director and from 1972 to 1984 first chairman of DMG.
In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bamberg . In 1980 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. He also received the Cedar Order of the Republic of Lebanon.
literature
- Ulrich Haarmann , Peter Bachmann (ed.): The Islamic world between the Middle Ages and modern times. Festschrift for Hans Robert Roemer on his 65th birthday . Wiesbaden 1979. Digitized
- Erika Glassen : Hans Robert Roemer in memory . In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter Heft 137, 1997, pp. 187-188 ( digitized version ).
- Erika Glassen: Hans Robert Roemer in memory. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society, Volume 148, 1998, pp. 1-6 ( digitized version ).
- Erika Glassen: Roemer, Hans Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 725 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Bamberg for an honorary doctorate
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roemer, Hans Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1997 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |