Martin Hartmann

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Martin Hartmann (born December 9, 1851 in Breslau , † December 5, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German Arabist and Islamic scholar .

Martin Hartmann

Life

Hartmann grew up as the son of a Mennonite preacher in Breslau. After graduating from high school in Breslau, he first studied theology and then, from 1871, oriental languages ​​in Leipzig. There is evidence that Hartmann came across the subject of the Orient through poems by Lord Byron . His most important teacher was Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer .

After receiving his doctorate in 1875, Hartmann entered the diplomatic service and, after a short stay in Adrianople and one year as Dragomanatseleve in Constantinople, became Dragoman and Chancellor of the German Consul General in Beirut , where he stayed from 1876 to 1887.

From 1887 until his death in 1918, Hartmann then taught Arabic at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin.

In 1909, shortly after the Young Turkish Revolution, he revisited his old field of activity, Constantinople. There he met the well-known journalist Dr Friedrich Schrader (founder and deputy editor-in-chief of Ottoman Lloyd and correspondent of numerous liberal German daily newspapers and the social democratic forward ). In his apolitical letters from Turkey (Haupt, Leipzig, 1910, see below) , he reported on his impressions from Turkey, which was then in a revolutionary mood of optimism after the Young Turkish Revolution of 1908 . Karl Radek wrote in 1909 in the SPD theoretical organ Die Neue Zeit about the book:

"" The less comforting portrayal of the changes in the political and economic field that Hartmann gives is [...] surrounded by a humanitarian-democratic spirit that is not often encountered in the usual German travel agencies. For us Social Democrats, the [...] news about the young socialist movement in Turkey, which Hartmann honors both as an observer and as a person. ""

Services

Hartmann was one of the most important founders of modern contemporary Islamic studies before the First World War.

Carl Heinrich Becker writes in his Islam Studies (Volume 2, p. 484) in an appreciation of Hartmann:

“Martin Hartmann was the first in Germany, and for a long time the only one, who moved the state structure, the political struggles, the cultural relations of the modern Orient into the area of ​​his studies and their consideration from the domain of pure journalism to the high altitude of scientific contemporary historical research tried to lift. "

In 1912, Hartmann founded the German Society for Islamic Studies , which existed until 1955 and published the magazine Die Welt des Islams, which has continued to be published even after the DGI has ended up to the present day ( ISSN  0043-2539 ). Important members of the DGI were a. Eugen Wednesday , Carl Heinrich Becker, Georg Kampffmeyer , Field Marshal von der Goltz Pascha , and the social democratic journalist and Middle East expert Dr. Friedrich Schrader .

Fonts

  • Arabic phrasebook for travelers . Leipzig 1881
  • Hebrew verse based on the metek sefatajim of 'Immanu'el Fransis and other works of Jewish metrics . Berlin 1894.
  • Meter and rhythm: the origin of the Arabic meter , Gießen 1896.
  • The Muwassah: the Arabic stanza poem; a study of the history and poets of one of the main forms of Arabic verse art; with lists of shapes, measurements and names , Weimar 1897 & Gießen 1896. New print Amsterdam, 1981.
  • Bohtan, a topographical-historical study . Berlin 1897.
  • Songs of the Libyan Desert: the sources and the lyrics; together with an excursus on the more important Bedouin tribes of western Lower Egypt , Leipzig 1899.
  • Chinese Tukestan. History, administration, intellectual life and economy . Hall 1908.
  • Non-political letters from Turkey . Rudolf Haupt, Leipzig 1910. http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/inhouse/content/titleinfo/5651899
  • Islam, mission, politics . Leipzig 1912.
  • Travel letters from Syria . Berlin 1913.
  • Sheikh Salih Ashharif Attunisi (Salih ash-Sharif at-Tunisi): Haqiqat Al jihad . The truth about the war of faith. From the Arabic by Karl Emil Schabinger von Schowingen , preface by Martin Hartmann, ed. German Society for Islamic Studies. Berlin 1915.
  • Poet of the New Turkey . Publishing house "Der Deutsche Orient" GmbH, Berlin 1919.
  • Martin Hartmann: The Baghdad Railway and Competing Lines , Deutsche Levante-Zeitung , August 1, 1918.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Martin Hartmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Hartmann: Non-political letters from Turkey. The Islamic Orient , Volume 3. Leipzig, published by Rudolf Kraft. 262 pages. Price 8 Mark: [Review] / Karl Radek. - Electronic ed. . In: The new time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. 28.1909-1910, 2nd vol. (1910), H. 37, p. 353.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Arabist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1918
Place of death Berlin