Joseph Derenbourg
Joseph Derenbourg (originally Derenburg and later also Dernburg ), (born August 21, 1811 in Mainz , † July 29, 1895 in Bad Ems ), was a German - French orientalist and Sanskritist .
Until he was 13, Derenburg only read rabbinical literature . He then went to high school in Mainz and studied oriental studies in Giessen and Bonn . Here he learned Arabic from Georg Wilhelm Freytag and made friends with Abraham Geiger . In 1839 he moved to Paris , where he continued his studies and founded a college for male students of the Jewish faith, which he directed until 1864. In 1843 Derenburg married and received French citizenship , after which he changed his surname to Derenbourg a few months later .
Afterwards he devoted himself exclusively to his scientific research. On December 22, 1871 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and in 1876 received the chair of Talmudic and post-biblical sciences at the École pratique des hautes études, which was created for him . In addition to numerous articles in Abraham Geiger's Jewish journals, he published, among other things, the inscriptions of the Alhambra translated from Arabic , the Arabic fables of Lokman (1846), the second edition of a series of epigraphic articles in the Journal asiatique (1877), and treatises on himyarian Texts.
Derenbourg was co-editor of the Academy's Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum .
His son Hartwig Derenbourg was also an orientalist.
Web links
- Jewish Encyclopedia on Joseph Derenbourg (engl.)
- Literature by and about Joseph Derenbourg in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derenbourg, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German orientalist and Sanskritist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1895 |
| Place of death | Bad Ems |