Eduard Sachau

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Eduard Sachau

Eduard Sachau (born July 20, 1845 in Neumünster , † September 17, 1930 in Berlin ; full name Carl Eduard Sachau ) was a German orientalist .

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During his studies in 1864 he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel . Sachau became associate professor in 1869 and full professor in 1872 at the University of Vienna , in 1876 professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, where in 1887 he became director of the seminar for oriental languages . He was a member of the Vienna and Berlin Academy of Sciences , honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London and the American Oriental Society as well as a corresponding member of the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences . He made extensive trips to the Orient . His studies of Syriac and other Aramaic dialects are particularly noteworthy. Eduard Sachau worked as a consultant in the planning and construction of the Baghdad Railway .

Adolf Brütt created a marble portrait of Eduard Sachau for the scholar's 70th birthday in 1915.

One of Sachau's students was Eugen Wednesday ( doctorate in Berlin 1899), one of the founders of modern Islamic studies in Germany.

Eduard Sachau died in Berlin in 1930 at the age of 85. His grave is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend . One of several reliefs on the representative sandstone wall grave shows an old man with a book and the inscription "EX ORIENTE LUX".

Fonts (selection)

  • Mohammedan law according to Shafiite teaching . Stuttgart 1897. German translation and explanation of Muchtasar Abī Schudschāʿ based on Ibrāhīm al-Bādschūrī including the Arabic original. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • General administration of the Royal Museums in Berlin, Aramaic papyrus and ostraka from a Jewish military colony in Elephantine. Ancient oriental language monuments of the 5th century BC Chr., Edited by Eduard Sachau, Tafeln, Hinrichs´sche Buchhandlung 1911. This work only contains photo-mechanical images of the Berlin papyri from Elephantine.
  • The Arbela Chronicle . Berlin 1915 ( digitized version of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle ).
  • Arabic stories from the time of the caliphs, Hyperion, Munich 1920. Digitized in the Internet Archive

literature

  • Festschrift Eduard Sachau. Dedicated to the 70th birthday by friends and students , on whose behalf ed. by Gotthold Weil , Berlin 1915.
  • Bruno Meissner : Speech in memory of Eduard Sachau , in: Meeting reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1931

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 434.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 479.
personal data
SURNAME Sachau, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachau, Carl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1930
Place of death Berlin