Heinrich August Jäschke
Heinrich August Jäschke (born May 17, 1817 in Herrnhut ; † September 24, 1883 ) was a German missionary , linguist and orientalist .
Life
Heinrich August Jäschke worked from 1857 to 1868 as a missionary of the Moravian Brethren in Kyelang (in the district of Lahaul and Spiti , an area in northern India in which a Tibetan dialect is spoken) and made a special contribution to researching the Tibetan language . He provided the Tibetan Bible translation and participated in the editing and translation of Tibetan texts.
Publications (selection)
- About the Tibetan sound system . In: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin , 1860, addendum, pp. 257–279.
- About the Eastern pronunciation of Tibetan compared to the Western one discussed earlier . In: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin , 1865, pp. 441–454.
- Romanized Tibetan and English dictionary . Kyelang in British Lahoul, 1866.
- About the phonetics of the Tibetan language . In: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin , 1868, pp. 148–182.
- Concise dictionary of the Tibetan language . Gnadau, university bookstore, 1871; Reprint: Osnabrück, Biblio Verlag, 1971.
- Concise dictionary of the Tibetan language . Gnadau 1871–1875 (English translation: 1881)
- A Tibetan-English dictionary . London 1881, archive.org
- Tibetan grammar . 2nd Edition. London 1883
literature
- Literature sheet f. oriental. Philol. Volume 1, 1883-1884
- Jäschke, Heinrich August . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 18, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 462.
- John Bray: Heinrich August Jaeschke: Pioneer Tibetan Scholar . In: The Tibet Journal , vol. 8, no. 1, Dharamsala, 1983, pp. 50-55.
- Gustav Theodor Reichelt: Jäschke, Heinrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 632 f.
- Gotthard Jäschke: Jäschke, Heinrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 289 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rainer Witt: Jäschke, Heinrich August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1441-1444.
- Gert A. Zischka: Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexikon - Biographical concise dictionary for the history of the sciences . In: Kröner's pocket edition, Volume 306. Kröner, Stuttgart 1961, I-VIII & 1-710 p., Here p. 315
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich August Jäschke in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jäschke, Heinrich August . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 18, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 462.
- ↑ a b Gert A. Zischka: Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexikon - Biographical concise dictionary for the history of the sciences . In: Kröner's pocket edition, Volume 306. Kröner, Stuttgart 1961, I-VIII & 1-710 p., Here p. 315
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SURNAME | Jäschke, Heinrich August |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German missionary, linguist and orientalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1817 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Herrnhut |
DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1883 |