Oskar Rescher

Oskar Rescher ( October 1, 1883 - March 26, 1972 ), also known as Osman Reşer , was a German Arabist and Turkologist who lived in Istanbul since 1928. He has translated numerous works from Arabic and Turkish.

Oskar Emil Rescher was born on October 1st, 1883 into a Jewish family of doctors, merchants and manufacturers. In his hometown, at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium, he received a humanistic education and in 1903 began studying law in Munich. This seems to have met a wish of the family, because in the following year he changed the subject and the university. From 1904 he studied Semitic, Arabic and Islamic studies in Berlin with important teachers such as Martin Hartmann, Friedrich Delitzsch, Hugo Winckler and Eduard Sachau. In the latter, he received his doctorate in 1909 with a thesis on the Arabic grammarian Ibn Dschinni. He then went to Leipzig to work with August Fischer, and from 1910 until the outbreak of World War I traveled to the Middle East, primarily Istanbul, where he studied Arabic manuscripts. The fruit of these studies is recorded in a series of articles that appeared in European journals and soon aroused the interest of luminaries in the field. From 1913 on, Rescher worked intensively on the Maqamen literature and translated the Maqamen des Hamadani, Zamahshari, Suyuti and others. a. into German.

The collection of hundreds of handwritten codices he acquired during his work and research in Istanbul is now in the possession of the Berlin State Library and the beincke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University .

Works

Collected Works. A collection of the most important writings of Oskar Rescher, partly with additions and improvements from the written estate; in V departments , reprint Osnabrück, Biblio-Verlag 1983-95, ISBN 3-7648-1066-1

literature

Leon Nemoy: Arabic Manuscripts in the Yale University Library. Transactions of the Academy of Art and Sciences, Vol. 40, New Haven (Connecticut) 1956.
Leon Nemoy: The Rescher Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts. In: Yale University Library Gazette , Vol. 47, No. 2 (1972), pp. 57-99.
Bertold Spuler : Oskar Rescher / Osman Reşer. On his 100th birthday, October 1, 1883/1983. in Der Islam , Vol. 61, Heft 1 (1984), pp. 12f. ( DOI: 10.1515 / islm.1984.61.1.12 ).
Rosemarie Quiring-Zoche: Directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany. Volume 17. Arabic manuscripts. Series B. Parts 3, 5 + 6. The manuscripts from the Oskar Rescher collection in the Berlin State Library. 3 vols., Verlag Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1994-2006.
Hanne Schönig (Ed.): Excluded competence. Portraits of displaced orientalists 1933–1945. Halle (Saale) 2001, p. 80f.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Oskar Rescher: Outline of the Arab literary history. Ed .: Oskar Rescher. 1st edition. tape 1 . Cloppenburg 1983, ISBN 3-7648-1066-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rescher, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Turkish Arabist and Turkologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1883
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1972

[1] Oskar Rescher: Outline of the Arab literary history. Ed .: Oskar Rescher. 1st edition. tape 1 . Cloppenburg 1983, ISBN 3-7648-1066-1 .