Hermann Frank (diplomat)

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Hermann Heinrich Frank (born August 2, 1853 in Wikoline, Guhrau district , today Wiklina, municipality of Wąsosz ; † November 21, 1916 in Ponorogo, Jawa Timur ) was a German orientalist and diplomat.

Life

Hermann Frank was a son of the manor owner on Wikoline Eduard Heinrich Frank and his wife Auguste Dorothea, geb. Noebel. He attended high school in Lauban . After graduating from high school, he studied law from 1873 to 1877 at the universities of Göttingen , Tübingen and Berlin . On July 12, 1878, he passed the trainee examination and entered the Prussian judicial service on August 15, 1878. From 1880 to 1881 he worked in the Prussian administration.

From October 1881 to 1884 he studied at the University of Leipzig Oriental , especially when Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer , and was established in August 1884, a work the knowledge of Sufism by Ibn Haldun Dr. phil. PhD.

On March 31, 1885, he joined the Foreign Service of the German Reich. He was sent to the embassy in Tehran as Dragomanats- Elve . Since September 2, 1885 Dragoman, he stayed in Tehran until 1890. Then he was transferred to the consulate in Beirut as Chancellor Dragoman and took over its acting management from July to November 1892. From May to November 1894 he was acting head of the Vice Consulate in Fiume .

On March 23, 1897, he was transferred to the Consulate General in Constantinople with the title of 1st Dragoman . He stayed here until May 31, 1899. After vacation and sick leave, he was retired on May 25, 1901.

Hermann Frank with daughters in Wikoline (1913)

He moved with his family to Pernau and was in charge of the Asian Museum , actually his own collection. In 1901 he joined the antiquity research society in Pernau, which was founded in 1896, and took on the role of honorary inspector of their museum on its board. On behalf of the Society for History and Archeology of the Russian Baltic Sea Provinces in Riga, he inventoried and described the Arabic coins in the Baltic Sea governorates . After 1905 he stayed in Portugal for a long time and from 1910 permanently in Batavia . In the July crisis of 1914 he worked as a temporary job at the Consulate General in Batavia from July 23, 1914 until September 20, 1914. He died without returning to Europe in 1916 on Java .

Since 1889 he was married to the German-Baltic woman Auguste, b. von Brandt, the daughter of an Imperial Russian officer and manorial estate owner on Kailes near Pernau (Estonian Kaelase, rural community Halinga ). The couple had a son Felix (* 1891) and two daughters, Eveline (* 1890), who was later known as a silhouette artist, and Ilse (* 1898).

Works

  • Contribution to the knowledge of Sufism according to Ibn Haldûn. Leipzig, Phil. Diss. 1884
  • The Baltic-Arab coins found. In: Communications from the area of ​​the history of Livonia, Estonia and Courland 18 (1908), pp. 311–486

literature

  • Frank, Hermann , in: Johannes Hürter (edit.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Volume 1, AF Paderborn: Schöningh 2000 ISBN 978-3-506-71840-2 , pp. 585f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the meeting reports of the Society for Research on Antiquities in Pernau
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Hermann Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Wikoline, district of Guhrau , today Wiklina, municipality of Wąsosz
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1916
Place of death Ponorogo, East Java