Karl Dyroff
Karl Dyroff (born February 25, 1862 in Aschaffenburg , † November 12, 1938 in Munich ) was a German orientalist in Munich.
Life
Dyroff was a brother of Anton Dyroff and Adolf Dyroff .
After graduating from the Kronberg-Gymnasium Aschaffenburg , he studied classical philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität from 1880 . In the same year he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich . As an inactive , he switched to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . After he had passed the main examination in Classical Philology in 1884, he was employed as an assistant at the New Gymnasium in Würzburg and then at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. As a one-year volunteer , he served in an Aschaffenburg hunter battalion .
After he had passed the special examination in 1890, he was employed as a study teacher at the old grammar school in Würzburg and later at the Luitpold and Theresien grammar school in Munich . In addition to his school service, he studied oriental languages . With the Arabic language as a major subject, he was Pentecost 1892 at the Faculty of LMU for Dr. phil. PhD . In February 1898 he qualified as a professor in Egyptology and Semitic languages. Soon an associate professor , from January 1898 he was employed at the Antiquarium (Munich) as curator, later as curator and chief curator.
In September 1914, at the age of 52, he volunteered for the mobile landsturm . Captain from Christmas 1914 , he fought in the Vosges and the Meuse until November 1918 . Among other things, he was awarded the Iron Cross I. Class.
Retired since December 1924, unmarried and highly admired by his corps brothers, “Philippus Arabus” died after a serious illness. He was buried in the family grave in Großkarolinenfeld .
Works
- Problems of knowledge of God . Aschendorff, Münster i. W. 1928.
- with Franz Boll and Jafar Ben Muhammad Al-balkh: Sphaera - New Greek Texts and Studies on the History of Constellations. ISBN 1142589749 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Dyroff in the catalog of the German National Library
- LMU Munich: Institute for Egyptology and Coptology - Institute history
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 114/909
- ↑ Dissertation: On the history of the tradition of the Zuhairdiwans .
- ^ Heinrich Gebhardt: Karl Dyroff † . Die Trausnitz, Corpszeitung der Münchner Schwaben, August 1939, pp. 32–33
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyroff, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist and Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1938 |
| Place of death | Munich |