Martin Klamroth
Martin Klamroth (born May 8, 1855 in Fiddichow ; † April 28, 1890 ) was a German high school teacher, Arabist and mathematician .
Klamroth was the son of a pastor and went to high school in Stargard and Pyritz . After graduating from high school in 1874, he studied theology and oriental studies in Tübingen, Göttingen and Strasbourg. While still a student in Leipzig, he received a gold medal for a philosophical prize assignment. After the state examination in Göttingen in November 1877 and the doctorate to Dr. phil. in March 1878 (with a dissertation on Gregorius Bar-Hebraeus ) and the one-year military service in Strasbourg, he became a teacher at the Christianeum in Altona , from 1881 as a full teacher. In 1884 he went to the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Hamburg , where he became a senior teacher in 1887.
Various publications on the scientific history of medieval Islam come from him, for example the tradition of Euclid in the Islamic Middle Ages and the excerpts from Greek scholars ( Hippocrates of Chios , Galen , Euclid, Nicomachus of Gerasa , Claudius Ptolemy , Aristotle and others) and the Gospels in the Chronicle (Tarikh) from al-Yaʿqūbī in the 9th century. He also translated suras of the Koran into German.
A controversy arose with Johan Ludvig Heiberg over the question of the Euclid tradition from the Arab side (1881) and the Greek text tradition . While Heiberg prevailed at that time, Wilbur Richard Knorr defended the preference for medieval Arabic tradition in 1996.
Fonts
- Gregorii Abulfaragii Bar Ebhraya in actus apostolorum et epistulas catholicas adnotationes. Syriace , Dissertation Göttingen 1878
- About the Arab Euclid , Journal of the German Oriental Society, Volume 35, 1881, pp. 270–326, online
- About the excerpts from Greek writers in al-Ja'qubi , 4 parts, Journal of the German Oriental Society, Volume 40, 1886, pp. 189–233, 612–638, Volume 41, 1887, pp. 415–442, Volume 42 , 1888, pp. 1–44, part 1 (Hippocrates) , part 2 (the other doctors) , part 3 (philosophical) , part 4 (mathematicians and astronomers)
- The excerpt from the Gospels by the Arab historian Ja'qûbî , in: Festschrift for the inauguration of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Hamburg on May 21, 1885. pp. 115–128.
- The fifty oldest suras of the Koran in a rhymed German translation. With an appendix on the other Meccan suras , Hamburg 1890
- About old Arabic poetry. Lecture given in the Association of Teachers at Higher State Schools in Hamburg on May 7, 1887, printed in the newspaper for literature, art and science of the Hamburg Correspondent. Nos. 9, 10, 11, on May 15, 22 and 29, 1887.
literature
- Kössler personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century , based on the obituary in the program of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium Hamburg 1891
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klamroth, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Arabist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fiddichow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1890 |