Hartwig Derenbourg

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Hartwig Derenbourg

Hartwig Charles Jacob Derenbourg (born June 17, 1844 in Paris ; † April 12, 1908 there ) was a French orientalist of Jewish descent.

Life

Hartwig Derenbourg was the son of the Franco-German orientalist Joseph Derenbourg and Delphine Meyer. After attending the Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he first studied Hebrew and Arabic in Paris, then in Leipzig and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1866. He received his doctorate for his award-winning work “ De pluralium linguae arabicae et aethiopicae origine et indole ” (Göttingen 1867). From 1867 to 1870 he worked on the catalog of Arabic manuscripts for the Bibliothèque impériale in Paris.

He was married to Betty Baer (1850–1879), daughter of the antiquarian Hermann Joseph Baer , who made him head of the Parisian branch of the Frankfurt antiquarian bookshop in 1871. From 1875 he taught Semitic languages ​​at the rabbinical seminary in Paris, from the same year Arabic at the École spéciale des langues orientales . In 1879 he was appointed professor there. In 1880 Jules Ferry sent him to study the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the Escorial , where he discovered the autobiography of the Syrian scholar Usama ibn Munqidh from the 12th century. In 1884 he became directeur d'études (professor) for Arabic at the École pratique des hautes études , in 1886 he also received the chair for Islamic religions .

In February 1897 he was awarded the Order of Knight of the Legion of Honor . In June 1900 he became a full member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

He was a member of the central committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the board of the Société des Études Juives.

Publications (selection)

Hartwig Derenbourg (1906)

With his father he worked on the edition of the complete works of Saadia and on an Abu al-Walid edition.

  • Catalog des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque impériale . 4 volumes, Paris 1866–1870.
  • Le dîwân de Nâbiga Dhobyânî . Paris 1869 ( digitized ).
  • Ousama ibn Mounkidh . Un émir syria au premier siècle des croisades . 2 volumes, Paris 1886–1893.
  • Le Livre de Sîbawaihi . 2 volumes, Paris 1881–1889.
  • Les manuscrits arabes de l ' Escurial . Paris, Vol. 1, 1884; Vol. 2 and 3, 1903.
  • with Jean Spiro : Chrestomathie élémentaire de l'Arabe littéral . Paris 1885; 2nd edition 1892.
  • Ousama ibn Mounkidh, preface du livre du baton . Paris 1887.
  • Souvenirs historiques et récits de chasse par un émir syria du 12e siècle. Autobiography d'Ousâma ibn Mounkidh intitulée l'Instruction des exemples. Traduction française d'après le texte arabe . Paris 1895.
  • Al-Fakhri Histoire du khalifat et du vizirat, depuis leurs origines jusqu'à la chute du khalifat abbaside de Bagdâdh (11-656 de l'hégire, 632-1258 de notre ère) . Paris 1895.
  • Oumara du Yémen, sa vie et son œuvre . Paris, Vol. 1, 1897; Vol. 2, 1902.
  • Opuscules d'un arabisant, 1898–1905 . Paris 1905.

literature

  • Mélanges Hartwig Derenbourg (1844–1908). Recueil de travaux d'érudition; dédiés à la mémoire d'Hartwig Derenbourg par ses amis et ses élèves . Leroux, Paris 1909.
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 161.

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