Johann Gildemeister (Orientalist)

Johann Gustav Gildemeister. Lithography and printing by Franz Hanfstaengl in Munich

Johann Gustav Gildemeister (born July 20, 1812 on the Hofgut Klein-Siemen (today Kröpelin ), Duchy of Mecklenburg ; † March 11, 1890 in Bonn ) was a German orientalist .

Life

Johann Gildemeister visited the school in Bremen and was designed by Friedrich Adolph Krummenacher in Hebrew taught. From 1832 he studied theology and oriental languages ​​with August Wilhelm von Schlegel , Christian Lassen and Georg Wilhelm Freytag in Göttingen with Heinrich von Ewald and from 1834 to 1836 at the University of Bonn . He then lived in Leiden and Paris for a year to use the manuscript libraries there. Gildemeister received his doctorate on September 8, 1838 in Bonn. He taught as a private lecturer in Bonn from 1839 and was an associate professor for oriental languages ​​there from 1844. Appointed professor of theology and oriental literature at the University of Marburg since 1845, and librarian there in 1848. In 1859 he was called back to Bonn as a full professor of oriental, especially Semitic, languages. He was a member of the German Oriental Society and the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine . In the fall of 1889 his deteriorating health forced him to stop teaching. One of his important students at that time was Eugen Prym .

In 1840/41 he was friends with Bruno Bauer . In 1852 he married his cousin Johanna Gildemeister .

A part of his handwritten estate is being kept at the Philipps University of Marburg . The University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt Library of the German Oriental Society preserves part of his personal library.

Works

• Dissertationis de rebus Indiae, quo modo in Arabum notitiam venerint, pars prior, quam una cum Masudii loco ad codd. Parisiens. fidem recensito . Baaden, Bonn 1838 (dissertation) ( digitized version)
• The wrong Sanskrit philology, using the example of Dr. Hoefer shown in Berlin. HB König, Bonn 1840 digitized
• Kalidasae Meghaduta et Çringaratilaka: ex recensione J. Gildemeisteri; additum est glossarium . HB König, Bonn 1841. Digitized
• Glare works of vulgar rationalism to remove the Pauline anathema . C. Schünemann, Bremen 1841 digitized
• Contributions to the Bremen magazine by Messrs Paniel , Weber and Paulus  : In addition to a critical excursion on Paniel's history of Christian eloquence . C. Schünemann, Bremen 1842
• The holy skirt in Trier and the twenty other holy unsewn skirts. A historical study by J. Gildemeister et al. H (furnished) by Sybel . Julius Buddeus 1844 digitized (3rd edition 1845) digitized .
• Bibliothecae Sanskritae sive recensvs librorvm sanskritorvm hvcvsque typis vel lapide exscriptorvm critici specimen . König, Bonn (inter alia) 1847.
• Official report of the theological faculty in Marburg on the Hessian catechism and confessional question . Elwert, Marburg 1855 digitized
• The report of the theological faculty in Marburg on the Hessian confessional question and its contestants. Reply . HL Brönner, Frankfurt a. M. 1859.
• About the at the royal. Prussian University of Bonn discovered new fragments of Macarius . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1866 digitized
• Christian Lassen : Anthologia Sanscritica: glossario instructa; in usum scholarum ; ed. Christianus Lassen. Denuo adornavit Ioannes Gildemeister. Adolf Marcus, Bonn 1868. Digitized new edition and revision of the Bonn 1835 edition.
• Fragments of a rabbinical commentary on Job ; A few copies as a manuscript . Carl Georgi, Bonn 1874
• Idrs, Muammad Ibn-Muammad, al-: Idrîsîi Palaestina et Syria arabice ad fidem librorum manu scriptorum . Georg, Bonn 1885.
• Oriental literature on the discovery of America . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , vol. 5, 1888, pp. 303-305 ( digitized version ).
• Antonini Placentini. Itierarium in the undistorted text with German translation . Edited by J. Gildemeister. H. Reuters Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1889 Digitized

He has also published valuable treatises on the knowledge of oriental literature in the “Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes” and other magazines.

literature

• JBH Ney: The h. unsewn skirt of Christ at Trier, and apart from this no other. Refutation of the historical investigations by Dr. J. Gildemeister u. Dr. von Sybel, titled by the quotations they themselves cited in their work: The holy rock of Trier and d. twenty others h. unsewn skirts . Trier 1845.
• Franz Jakob Clemens : The holy skirt in Trier and the Protestant criticism. In appreciation of the script: The holy skirt in Trier and the twenty other holy unsewn skirts. A historical study, by J. Gildemeister and H. Sybel . Blum, Coblenz 1845.
• About relics, especially about the so-called holy skirt in Trier. In addition to an excerpt from Dr. Gildemeister u. Dr. by Sybel “The holy skirt of Trier and the 20 other holy unsewn skirts” . Neidhard, Speyer 1845.
• Wilhelm Böhmer: The holy skirt in Trier and no one else, or: the critical tailors in Bonn, that is: Untrained refutation of the learned book: “The holy. Rock in Trier and the other twenty safe. sewn skirts "by Dr. J. Gildemeister and Dr. H. v. Sybel, professors in Bonn, from a pilgrim from Koblenz . 4th edition, Koblenz 1854.
• Heinrich Joseph Floß : J. Gildemeister and the Bonn University Program for August 3, 1866. A critical appreciation of the Greek fragments published from the Berlin manuscript Nro 18 . Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, Freiburg 1867 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Guthe : Nekrolog Johann Gildemeister. In: Journal of the German Palestine Association. Volume XIII, K. Baedeker, Leipzig 1890, pp. III-V archive
• Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf: "It was simply necessary to write this way and not another." The orientalist Johann Gustav Gildemeister (1812–1890) and his time. V&R unipress / Bonn Univ. Press, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0242-7 .
• Manuel Joël : Against Gildemeister. Professor Gildemeister's report on the Jewish ritual code (Shulchan Aruch) and the relation of the Jews to it. Critically illuminated . Schottlaender, Breslau 1884 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Jakobi :  Gildemeister, Johannes Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 354-359.
• Johann Gustav Gildemeister, In: Karl Bader: Lexicon of German librarians in main and part-time positions with princes, states and cities . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1925, p. 76 ( Central Journal for Libraries . Supplement 55).
• Christoph Waldecker : "Of course there is a reason to shy away from closer examination". Johann Gustav Gildemeister and the exhibition of the Holy Skirt in Trier 1844. In: Archive for the Middle Rhine Church History together with reports on church monument preservation . On behalf of d. Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Vol. 48, Mainz 1996, pp. 391–406.
• Gildemeister, Johannes Gustav . In: German biographical encyclopedia of theology and the churches (DBETh), Vol. 1: A – L. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 501.
• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling: Gildemeister, Johannes Gustav . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Vol. 34: Supplements XXI. Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 , column 380-396.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Gildemeister (Orientalist)  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johann Gildemeister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johann Gildemeister  in the German Digital Library
• The Bonn orientalist Johann G. Gildemeister (1812-1890) on the occasion of his 200th birthday Conference on June 22 and 23, 2012 Retrieved October 23, 2013 (PDF; 499 kB)
• Cultural-scientific evaluation and edition of the letters of the Bonn orientalist Johann Gildemeister (1812-1890) to his family from the years 1832-1890 from the Gildemeister estate of the Bonn university archive.Retrieved October 23, 2013 ( Memento from October 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Gildemeister, Johannes Gustav in the Hessian biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf: "One of the smartest men I have ever met". Johann Gustav Gildemeister and the Oriental Studies in the 19th Century . EBVerlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86893-139-6 , pp. 153-165.
2. ↑ Broño Bauer to Karl Marx March 1, 1840 ( Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe Division III Volume 1, Berlin 1975, p.340..); Bruno Bauer to Karl Marx July 25, 1840 (ibid, p. 349.); Bruno Bauer to Karl Marx April 12, 1841 (ibid, p. 358).
3. ^ Estates and autographs.
4. ↑ Handbook of the historical book collections in Germany, Austria and Europe (Fabian Handbook)