Julius Heinrich Petermann

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Heinrich Petermann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Julius Heinrich Petermann. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 15, 2015 .

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personal data
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