Manfred Kropp

Manfred S. Kropp (born June 14, 1947 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German Semitist .

Life

From the 1969 summer semester to 1975 summer semester, he studied Semitic Studies, Islamic Studies and Middle and Modern History at the University of Heidelberg . In the academic year 1970/1971 he was in Paris (studies at the École des langues orientales vivantes , University of Paris III and the École pratique des hautes études . Major: Modern Arabic and Semitic Philology). After receiving his doctorate in 1975 as Dr. phil. with the dissertation The History of the 'Pure Arabs' from the Qaḥṭān tribe. From the "Kitāb Našwat aṭ-ṭarab fī taʾrīḫ ǧāhiliyyat al-ʿArab" of Ibn-Saʿīd al-Marġribī , he completed the librarianship at the University Library of Tübingen and at the Librarian Teaching Institute of the University of Cologne from 1975 to 1977 . From 1977 to 1984 he was a research assistant (from 1980 university assistant) at the chair for Semitic and Islamic Studies at the Department of Languages ​​and Cultures of the Middle East in Heidelberg . From the 1977/1978 winter semester to 1979 summer semester, he completed a basic course in Akkadian alongside his work as an assistant.

After his habilitation in 1984 in Semitic Studies with the habilitation thesis Zǝkrä nägär. The Ethiopian royal chronicles in the collection of General Ḫaylu and the test lecture Arabic-Ethiopian translation technique using the example of Zena Ayhud (Yosippon) and Tarikä Wäldä-ʿAmid , he gave the public inaugural lecture on May 15, 1985 on the subject of The Eastern Horn of Africa for Arab geographers . In 1985 he became Professor of Semitic Studies and Islamic Studies at Heidelberg University. In 1987 he was on leave from Heidelberg for one year to represent the professorship in Arabic and Islamic Studies ( Manfred Ullmann ) in Tübingen . In March 1988 he taught as visiting professor at the University of Naples L'Orientale , Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, with lectures on Islamic law, especially apostasy (Ridda) in modern jurisprudence, and in March 1989 he held guest lectures and doctoral seminars at the Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli , Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi. In 1989 he became a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz to work on the research project Ethiopian Manuscripts as Archives .

In 1990 he became Professor of Semitic Languages ​​at Lund University . In 1991 he became Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Studies at the University of Mainz . In 1997 he became spokesman for the jointly initiated SFB 295 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts, Centers and Peripheries in the historical region of Northeast Africa-West Asia at the University of Mainz and sub-project manager of a historical Islamic and an Ethiopian linguistic sub-project. From 1999 to 2007 he was director of the Orient Institute of the DMG , later in the DGIA , Beirut and Istanbul (on leave of absence from the University of Mainz). In October 2005 he taught as a visiting professor at the Collège de France with four lectures on the origins of the Koran. In the academic year 2007/2008 he teaches as Professeur associé de la Chaire annuelle européenne at the Collège de France for Koranic Studies . In 2008 he became professor (from 2010: retirement ) for Semitic and Islamic Studies in Mainz .

Fonts (selection)

• The story of the "pure Arabs" from the Qaḥṭān tribe. From the Kitāb Našwat aṭ-ṭarab fī tāʾrīḫ ǧāhiliyyat al-ʿArab of Ibn Saʿīd al-Maġribī (= Heidelberg Oriental Studies. Volume 4). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7633-4 (also dissertation, Heidelberg 1975).
• as editor: The story of Lebna-Dengel, Claudius and Minās. Texts amharique (= Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium. Scriptores Aethiopici. Volume 83) (= Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium. Volume 503). Peeters, Löwen 1988, OCLC 850878994 .
• as editor: The story of Lebna-Dengel, Claudius and Minās. Traduction allemande (= Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium. Scriptores Aethiopici. Volume 84) (= Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium. Volume 504). Peeters, Leuven 1988, OCLC 421045676 .
• The Ethiopian royal chronicles in the collection of Däğazmač Haylu. Origin and handwritten transmission of the work (= Heidelberg Orientalist Studies. Volume 13). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1989, ISBN 3-8204-9484-7 .
• as editor: The victorious campaign of King ʿĀmda-Ṣeyon against the Muslims in Adal in 1332 AD (= Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium. Scriptores Aethiopici. Volume 99) (= Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium. Volume 538). Peeters, Löwen 1994, ISBN 2-87723-121-6 .
• as editor with Andreas Wagner : "Intersection" Ugarit (= Northeast African-West Asian Studies. Volume 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-631-33052-9 .
• as editor: Results of contemporary research on the Qurʾān. The question of a historio-critical text of the Qurʾān (= Beirut texts and studies. Volume 100). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 3-89913-543-1 .
• Zekra Nagar. The universal historical introduction according to Giyorgis Walda-Amid in the Chronicle Collection of Haylu . Potato printing publisher Kai Brodersen, Speyer 2016, ISBN 978-3-939526-27-8 .

Web links

• academia.edu
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz