Hubert Grimme

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Hubert Grimme (born January 24, 1864 in Paderborn ; † September 5, 1942 in Münster in Westphalia ) was a German Semitist who taught at the universities of Freiburg im Üechtland (1889-1910) and Münster (1910-1929). He was particularly prominent as a Koran and Bible student.

Life

Hubert Grimme was the second of the eleven children of the grammar school director and writer Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme . From 1872 he attended the high school in Heiligenstadt, where his father had been transferred, and in 1872 he passed the school leaving examination. He then studied Semitic philology, German studies and classical philology in Münster and Berlin , where he in 1886 Eduard Sachau with a thesis in the Muslim period Palmyra doctorate was. During his studies he became a member of the KDStV Sauerlandia Münster in the CV in 1881 . In 1887 he passed the teaching examination for German and Latin and worked as a trial candidate at the Lippstadt high school.

However, his intention was an academic career. In 1889 he completed his habilitation at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) for the subject of Oriental Studies and was appointed full professor in 1892. After he was the rector's office of the university in the academic year 1909/1910, he moved to the University of Münster in 1910, where he took over the newly established chair for Oriental Studies. In 1911 he opened the Oriental Seminary at the university, which he headed until his retirement (1929). During the First World War , Grimme served as an interpreter for Arab prisoners from 1917 to 1918.

As a researcher, Grimme mainly dealt with oriental linguistics, cultural and religious studies. His first major work, on Mohammed and the theology of the Koran (1892–1895), was regarded as a standard work and remained so until after his death. He dealt with South Arabic and Semitic scripts, especially the development of the Hebrew alphabet and the Protosinaitic script . After the First World War he published a translation of the Koran in extracts in which he tried to reproduce the rhythm of the original.

As a patriot from the Sauerland (his father was a dialect poet), Grimme also wrote a standard work in German studies: the Göschen volume Low German dialects (Leipzig 1910; second edition 1922).

literature

  • Franz Taeschner : Hubert Grimme . In: Journal of the German Oriental Society . Volume 96 (1942), pp. 381–392 (with list of publications and picture before p. 381)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 291.

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personal data
SURNAME Grimme, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Semitist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1942
Place of death Muenster