Joseph von Karabacek

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Joseph von Karabacek

Joseph Maria Karabacek , from 1904 Ritter von Karabacek , (born September 20, 1845 in Graz , † October 9, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian orientalist and library director .

Life

Joseph Karabacek was the son of the military officer Johann Baptist Karabacek (around 1800–1875) from Iglau ( Moravia ) and Johanna Ilwof (1812– ??) from Graz and married a Roman Catholic on May 24, 1876 in the Schottenkirche in Vienna, Karoline Johanna Lang (born December 2, 1852 in Vienna; † February 23, 1914, buried in Vienna's central cemetery ), the daughter of the merchant Leopold Lang (1822–1880) and Ernestine von Hofmannsthal (1828–1870), both of Jewish descent.

Karabacek attended grammar school in Lemberg , Temesvar and Vienna and graduated in 1863 with the Matura . He then studied law at the University of Vienna , and from 1866 oriental studies. In 1868 he received his doctorate, in 1869 his habilitation and private lecturer for palaeography and numismatics of the Islamic peoples at the University of Vienna. In 1874 he was appointed associate professor, from 1885 to 1915 he was full professor for the history of the Orient and its auxiliary sciences. From 1899 to 1917 he was director of the Vienna court library . His specialty was Arabic papyrology .

Karabacek was elevated to the Austrian knighthood on April 10, 1904 with a diploma dated February 2, 1905 as an Imperial and Royal Councilor and Library Director . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Publications (selection)

  • The Persian needle painting Susandschird: A contribution to the development history of the tapestry de Haute Lisse; with the basis of a discovered wall carpet by Oriental sources / represented by ... . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1881.

literature

  • Gabriele Mauthe: The directorate of Josef Karabacek at the kk court library in Vienna (1899–1917), a library-scientific and cultural-historical study from sources of the kk court library in Vienna. With a biographical sketch by Josef Karabacek (1845–1918) . Dissertation University of Vienna 2000 (unpublished).
  • Gabriele Mauthe, Christian host: The management of the court library at the turn of the century. Josef Ritter von Karabacek Director of the Imperial and Royal Court Library in Vienna (1899–1917) . Catalog for the exhibition in the Papyrus Museum, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-01-000022-7 (here p. 99–102 bibliography of his writings).
  • Karabaček Joseph of. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 228 f. (Direct links on p. 228 , p. 229 ).
  • Hans L. Gottschalk :  Karabacek, Joseph von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 140 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Joseph von Karabacek  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal was her nephew.
  2. ↑ All family information is from the Mormon Archives in Utah, USA (www.familysearch.org).
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI , Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, p. 123.
  4. ^ Josef Karabacek grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 54, No. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Karabacek, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karabacek, Joseph Maria; Karabacek, Joseph Maria Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1918
Place of death Vienna