Josef Karst

Josef Karst (also Joseph Karst ; born April 1, 1871 in Bettringen near Holving , Lorraine , † 1962 ) was a German orientalist who was particularly concerned with the Armenian language .

Josef Karst received his doctorate in January 1899 at the University of Strasbourg with a dissertation on pronunciation and vocalism of Cilician-Armenian . He was Professor of Oriental Philology, General Comparative Linguistics and Classical Studies at the University of Strasbourg.

He published the translation of the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea , which was handed down in an Armenian version, and made it accessible to science.

Publications (selection)

• Pronunciation and vocalism of Cilician-Armenian. First part of a historical-grammatical representation of the Cilician-Armenian . Trübner, Strasbourg 1899 (= dissertation).
• Historical grammar of Cilician-Armenian . Trübner, Strasbourg 1901.
• Outline of the history of Armenian law . In: Journal for Comparative Law Vol. 19, 1906 and 20, 1907 ( digitized version ).
• Eusebius Werke fifth volume. The chronicle translated from Armenian with text-critical commentary (= The Greek Christian Writers of the First Three Centuries Vol. 20, 1911). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1911 ( digitized version ).
• Foundation stones for a Middle-Country Asiatic prehistory . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1928.
• History of Armenian philology presented in a critical light according to its ethnological context . Winter, Heidelberg 1930.
• Atlantis and the Libyan-Ethiopian culture . Winter, Heidelberg 1931.
• Basics of a comparative grammar of Ibero-Caucasian . Heitz, Leipzig 1932.

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch : The Catholic Germany , Vol. 2, Augsburg 1937, Col. 2016-2017.

Web links

• The digitization of Josef Karst's estate for the edition of the Central Armenian dictionary