Karl Vollers

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Karl Vollers (born March 19, 1857 in Hooksiel , † January 5, 1909 in Jena ) was a German orientalist .

Life

Vollers attended schools in Hildesheim and Jever , where he graduated from high school in 1875. He studied Protestant theology and oriental languages in Tübingen , Halle , Berlin and Strasbourg . After graduating in the fall of 1879, he was a private teacher in Constantinople until July 1880 . In 1880 he received the Venia legendi for theology in Jena .

His first job was as a high school teacher in Fürstenwalde , Saxony , where he worked from October 1881 to 1882. After completing his doctorate at the University of Halle, he became an assistant at the Royal Library in Berlin in October 1882 under the direction of Karl Lepsius . From 1886 to 1896 he was director of the Khedivial Library in Cairo , a position held by some German orientalists, including Ludwig Stern and Wilhelm Spitta , until the First World War . One of his first studies was in Egyptian Arabic , which gave him a reputation as a dialect researcher.

In 1896 he returned to Germany. He became Professor of Oriental Languages ​​at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena and, as the successor to the late Johann Gustav Stickel , Director of the Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena . In 1906 he published the catalog of Islamic, Christian-Oriental, Jewish and Samaritan manuscripts in the Leipzig University Library . After a personal argument about Vollers' book Folk Language and Written Language in Ancient Arabia , the author left the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft in 1908 and died shortly afterwards in Jena.

Fonts

  • The dodecapropheton of the Alexandrines (2 volumes, 1880–82).
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the living Arabic language in Egypt . In: ZDMG , Vol. 41 (1887). Digitized
  • From the vice-royal library in Cairo: II. The medical department . In: ZDMG, Vol. 44 (1890). Digitized
  • The poison man . In: ZDMG, Vol. 45 (1891). Digitized
  • Pentateuchus Samaritanus III – V (1883–91)
  • Textbook of Egyptian-Arabic colloquial language (1890)
  • Fragments from Ibn Sa'id's Mugrib (1894)
  • The Poems of Mutalammi , Arabic and German (1903)
  • Catalog of the Islamic, Christian-Oriental, Jewish and Samaritan manuscripts in the Leipzig University Library . Leipzig 1906 (reprint Osnabrück 1975).
  • The oriental coin cabinet of the University of Jena in 1906. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 41, 6, (1906) Sp. 3515–3524; 41, 7-8, col. 3529-3537.
  • Folk and written language in ancient Arabia (1906). Reprint from Literaricon Verlag, 2018. ISBN 978-3-95913-779-9 .
  • The world religions in their historical context. Diederichs, Jena, 1907. Classic Reprint 2018. ISBN 978-0-428-24854-3 . Digitized

literature

  • Stefan Heidemann : "Oriental Studies and Oriental Numismatics in Jena", in: Stefan Heidemann (Hrsg.): Islamic Numismatics in Germany - an inventory (Jena contributions to the Middle East 2), Wiesbaden 2000, pp. 87-106.
  • Bernd Landmann: “In search of traces of a bridge builder between Orient and Occident”, in: Papyrus. The magazine for all German speakers in Egypt . Volume 33.2 (2012), pp. 37-39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Mangold: A "cosmopolitan science". German oriental studies in the 19th century. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. ISBN 978-3-515-08515-1 , p. 215. Partial online view
personal data
SURNAME Vollers, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Hooksiel near Wangerland
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1909
Place of death Jena