Julius Heinrich Petermann
Julius Heinrich Petermann (born August 12, 1801 in Glauchau , † June 10, 1876 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German orientalist .
Life
Petermann received his doctorate in Berlin in 1829 on the Targum Jonathan for the Pentateuch . Between 1830 and 1837 he was a private lecturer, from 1837 extraordinary professor for oriental philology in Berlin at the university. Johann Gottfried Wetzstein , Consul in Damascus and the Prussian King supported trips to Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia from 1852 to 1855. From 1868 to 1869 he was consul in Jerusalem .
He learned Armenian from a mechitharist father Eduard on the island of San Lazzaro , which belongs to Venice . In his Grammatica linguae Armeniacae he was able to prove that Armenian belongs to the Indo-European languages . He wrote about Armenian culture as well as the music of the Armenians in 1851 and their history in 1866.
Petermann was interested in religious minorities such as the Samaritans , Druze , Mandaeans , Yazidis , Parsees and Ahl-e Haqq . Information about these groups is given in his two-volume travel report Reisen im Orient . He did pioneering work with the Samaritans and Mandaeans.
He learned the Samaritan pronunciation tradition of Hebrew from a Samaritan priest in Nablus . He began with a critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch , of which he was able to bring out the first two volumes. The continuation of volumes three to five was brought out by Karl Vollers .
Petermann brought out the first edition and Latin translation of the two Mandaean writings Ginzā and Sidrā Rabbā ("The treasure", "The great book") in his thesaurus sive liber magnus . He acquired two collections of 1532 oriental manuscripts for the royal library in Berlin. With Porta linguarum Orientalium he founded a series of concise textbooks on oriental languages in 1840, each with chrestomathies . In this series he published volumes on Arabic, Chaldean, Armenian, Hebrew and Samaritan .
Petermann was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm for Crowned Justice . In 1850 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1869 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Works
- Grammatica linguae armenicae , Berlin 1837.
- De Ostikanis, Arabicis Armeniae gubernatoribus , Berlin 1840.
- Contributions to a history of the most recent reforms of the Ottoman Empire . Turkish and German (with Ramis Efendi), Berlin 1842.
- Epistola ad Philemonem speciminis loco ad fidem versionum orientalium veterum , Berlin 1844.
- S. Ignatii patris apostolici quae feruntur Epistolae , Leipzig 1849.
- Contributions to the history of the Crusades from Armenian sources , Berlin 1860.
- Reisen im Orient 1st edition . 2 volumes. Leipzig, 1860 and 1861; Journeys in the Orient , 2nd edition , Leipzig 1865.
- Thesaurus sive liber magnus vulgo liber Adami appellatus , 2 parts, Leipzig 1867. (Mandean text, handwritten by Petermann reproduced to scale from a Paris codex, with a Latin introduction)
- Attempt of a Hebrew theory of forms according to the pronunciation of today's Samaritans in 1868
- Pentateuchus samaritanus . 5 vols. Berlin, 1872–91 volume 1
- Porta linguarum orientalium (editor) Vol. 1–4, 6th edition, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Heinrich Petermann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 21, 2015 .
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Julius Heinrich Petermann. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 15, 2015 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Heinrich Petermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hartmut Bobzin : Petermann, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 238 ( digitized version ).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Petermann, Julius Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Glauchau |
DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1876 |
Place of death | Bad Nauheim |