Ludolf Krehl (orientalist)
Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried Krehl (born June 29, 1825 in Meißen , † May 15, 1901 in Leipzig ) was a German orientalist .
Life
Ludolf Krehl was born as the son of the professor of theology and university preacher August Krehl (1784–1855). He studied oriental languages at the universities of Leipzig (with Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer ), Tübingen (with Heinrich Ewald ) and Paris and continued his studies in Saint Petersburg .
In 1852 he got a job as a secretary at the royal library in Dresden , came to Leipzig in 1861 as an associate professor of oriental languages and university librarian, and in 1869 he became a full honorary professor and senior librarian. On January 2, 1874, he finally became a regular full professor of his subject and headed his faculty as dean in 1876/77 . Due to an eye problem, he was finally given retirement on September 1, 1899. Since 1878 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Works
- About the religion of the pre-Islamic Arabs . Leipzig 1863.
- About the Koranic doctrine of predestination . Leipzig 1870.
- Contributions to the characteristics of the doctrine of faith in Islam . Leipzig 1877.
- About the legend of the burning of the Alexandrian library by the Arabs : Estratto dagli Atti del IV Congresso degli Orientalisti. Florence 1880. 24 pp.
- The life and teaching of Muhammad . Leipzig 1884, volume 1.
- Omar ben Suleiman's delight of the spirits . Leipzig 1848, with German translation.
- part of Makkari's history of "the Spanish Arabs" ( Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, par al-Makkari ; Leiden 1855 ff., 2 volumes)
- Arabic text from the traditional collection of Bukhari ( Recueil des traditions musulmanes par el-Bokhari , Leiden 1862–72, 3 volumes)
literature
- Rudolf Sellheim: Krehl, Ludolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 732 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludolf Krehl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ludolf Krehl in the German Digital Library
- Overview of the lectures of Ludolf Krehl (orientalist) at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1863 to winter semester 1897)
- Ludolf Krehl (orientalist) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Konstantin Hermann: Krehl, Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krehl, Ludolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krehl, Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1901 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |