Josef Matuz

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Josef Eugen Matuz , actually Matuz József Jenő , (born October 27, 1925 in Budapest , † December 20, 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian , orientalist , Turkologist , Islamologist and Ottoman of Hungarian origin.

Life

family

Matuz's parents were the architect Josef Wagner and Etelka, geb. Kovács. He was later adopted by Ladislaus Matuz. Matuz was of an Evangelical Reformed denomination and married Klara, born in 1949. Csákóy.

Education and career

Matuz researched and taught at the universities of Budapest, Frankfurt, Freiburg and Strasbourg in the fields of Turkic, Persian , Arabic , Mongolian , Hungarian , history and philosophy .

From 1948 to 1951 he was a trainee lawyer at the Hungarian Ministry of Defense. From 1951 to 1953 he was a research assistant at the Military History Archive in Budapest and from 1953 to 1956 he headed the history department of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge in Budapest. He obtained his diploma as a high school teacher in history in 1954.

When the Hungarian people's uprising was bloodily suppressed by the Soviet Army in 1956, Matuz fled to the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1957 to 1961 he worked as a social worker in Darmstadt, Düsseldorf and Cologne. After receiving his doctorate in philosophy in Munich in 1961, he worked from 1962 to 1963 at the Oriental Seminary at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and then until 1964 at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris and Strasbourg. During his time as a lecturer at the Oriental Seminary 1964–1968, he received his doctorate in Islamic Studies in 1965 . From 1968-1970 Matuz received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . From 1970–1973 he was also a lecturer and private lecturer at the Oriental Seminary in Freiburg. During this time he received his habilitation in Ottoman and Turkish studies in 1972. Until 1975 he lectured at the University of Freiburg and from 1975–1976 was a lecturer at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut. From 1975 to 1978 he was an associate professor at the Oriental Seminary in Freiburg and from 1979 until his retirement in 1990 he was a full professor there.

Act

Matuz had spent a lot of time researching and teaching mainly in the fields of medieval and modern oriental studies, Ottoman studies and Turkish studies. During a longer stay in the Orient in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt he discovered old manuscripts and documents on the history of Islamic peoples and Ottomans and presented and evaluated them in several of his scientific writings, such as B. in certificates of rulership of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (1971).

Honors

In 1973, Matuz received the certificate of honor from the Turkish State Ministry.

Publications (selection)

  • A description of the Khanate of Crimea from 1669 . In: Acta Orientalia . tape 28 , no. 1/2 , 1964, ISSN  0001-6438 , pp. 129-151 .
  • Notes relatives à l'édition de la chronique de Seyfi Tchelebi . In: Bulletin de la Faculté des Lettres de Strasbourg . Vol. 45, 1966, ISSN  0151-1971 , p. 379-385 .
  • L'ouvrage de Seyfī Çelebī . Histories ottoman du XVI e siècle . Paris 1968.
  • On the epistolography and insā'-literature of the Ottomans . In: Journal of the German Oriental Society . Supplementa I . Part 2, 1969, p. 574-594 .
  • Certificates of rulership of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent . A chronological directory . Schwarz, Freiburg 1971.
  • The chancellery of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-515-01832-8 .
  • Suleyman the Magnificent's renunciation of the annexation of Hungary . In: Hungary Yearbook . Magazine for the customers of Hungary and allied areas . tape 6 , 1974, ISSN  0082-755X , pp. 38-46 .
  • The expression gazdag pasa "rich pasha" in an alleged Petőfi poem . In: Ural-Altai yearbooks . tape 47 , 1975, ISSN  0042-0786 , pp. 140-144 .
  • The portal interpreters during the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent . In: Southeast Research . tape 34 , 1975, ISSN  0081-9077 , pp.  26-60 .
  • Crimean Tatar documents in the Imperial Archives in Copenhagen . With historical-diplomatic and linguistic studies . Schwarz & Matuz, Freiburg 1976, ISBN 3-87997-049-1 .
  • Ottoman archival tours in Iraq and Syria . In: Journal of the German Oriental Society . Scientific news . tape 129 , 1979, ISSN  0341-0137 , pp. 1-7 .
  • From the conversion of Ottoman soldiers to the Safavids . In: Ulrich Haarmann, Peter Bachmann (ed.): The Islamic world between the Middle Ages and the modern age . Steiner, Beirut, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-01845-X , p. 402-415 .
  • An "unofficial" Ferman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent . In: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae . tape 38 , no. 1-2 , 1984, ISSN  0001-6446 , pp. 105-113 .
  • The Ottoman Empire . Baseline of its history . Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-534-05845-3 .
  • Why there was no industrial development in Ottoman Turkey . In: Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen . Quarterly magazine of the Southeast Europe Society . Vol. 25, No. 3 , 1985, ISSN  0340-174X , pp. 43-46 .
  • The tax conception of the Sandschak Stuhlweissenburg from the years 1563 to 1565 . aku & Schwarz, Bamberg, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-925445-09-9 .
  • An unusual Ottoman grand vizier title . In: Viennese magazine for the customer of the Orient . tape 77 , 1987, ISSN  0084-0076 , pp. 87-103 .
  • Vizier Abdurrahman Abdi Pascha, the last Ofner Beglerbeg (attempt at a vita) . In: Acta Historica Academiae Scientarium Hungaricae . tape 33 , no. 2-4 , 1987, ISSN  0001-5849 , pp. 341-350 .
  • Les relations étrangères du Khanat de Crimée (XV e –XVIII e siècles) . In: Revue d'histoire diplomatique . Vol. 102, 1988, ISSN  0035-2365 , pp. 233-249 .
  • The rise and fall of Ottoman military power . In: Military history messages . tape 46 , no. 2 , 1989, ISSN  0026-3826 , pp. 21-33 .
  • On the probation reward in the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the 16th century. In: Viennese magazine for the customer of the Orient . tape 82 , 1992, ISSN  0084-0076 , pp. 289-295 .
  • Transmission of Directives from the Center to the Periphery in the Ottoman State from the Beginning until the Seventeenth Century . In: Caesar E. Farah (ed.): Decision Making And Change In The Ottoman Empire . Kirksville 1993, ISBN 0-943549-15-9 , pp. 19-27 .

literature

  • Markó László et al .: Új magyar életrajzi lexikon . L – Ö . tape 4 , 2002.
  • A magyar emigráns irodalom lexikona . H-M . Budapest 1992, ISBN 963-7412-30-1 , pp. 247 .
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1988, ISBN 3-7950-2008-5 , p. 886 .

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personal data
SURNAME Matuz, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matuz, Josef Eugen (full name); Matuz József Jenő
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, orientalist and Turkologist of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1992
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau