Otto Pretzl

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Otto Pretzl (born March 20, 1893 in Ingolstadt ; † October 28, 1941 ) was a German orientalist .

Life

After taking part in the First World War , most recently as a frontline officer who was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class, Pretzl studied theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . As a student of Fritz Hommel, he learned not only the biblical languages ​​but also many Semitic idioms and also studied ancient Egyptian , Coptic , Persian , Turkish and Arabic . In 1926 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the problems of the Septuagint in the Book of Judges , resulting from an award from the theological faculty; In 1928 he completed his habilitation with the work The Greek Manuscript Groups in the Book of Josue, examining their characteristics and their relationship to one another . By Gotthelf Bergsträsser Pretzl was completely won over to the Arabic and placed immediately two text editions of Arab source texts before, a mountain Strässer plan for creating Apparatus criticus the Koran followed. Having advanced to become a student and close associate of Bergstrasse, he qualified as a professor in 1933 from the theological to the philosophical faculty so that he could devote himself entirely to his new tasks.

After the unexpected death Mountain Strässer, 1933 Pretzl was 1934, as successor to the extraordinary 1935 as Full Professor of Oriental Languages and appointed by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences entrusted with the continuation of the Koran project. For this purpose, between 1934 and 1937, while studying library in Paris , Madrid , Istanbul , Damascus and North Africa (especially in Cairo ), he used a Leica camera to create an extensive photo archive of early Koran manuscripts, which for decades was first made by Anton Spitaler , who claimed it was burned in the war and then hidden by his student Angelika Neuwirth , is currently being digitized and evaluated by the research company Corpus Coranicum . Pretzl's special scientific interest was also Islamic theology and mysticism, which he also published. In 1939 he was drafted into the army, although he was unfit for military service because of a wound through his lung in the First World War . Pretzl was used as an interrogation officer, particularly with North African prisoners of war. In 1941 he was appointed to the Wehrmacht High Command . A little later he was killed in a plane crash.

Fonts

  • The textbook of the seven Koran readings by Abû 'Amr' Uthmân ibn Sa'îd ad-Dânî . Published by Otto Pretzl. Istanbul: Devlet Matbaasi 1930. (Bibliotheca Islamica. Volume 2.)
  • Orthography and punctuation in the Koran. Two writings by Abû 'Amr' Uthmân ibn Sa'îd ad-Dânî . Published by Otto Pretzl. Istanbul: Devlet Matbaasi 1932. (Bibliotheca Islamica. Volume 3.)
  • The biographical lexicon of the Koran teachers by Sams ad-dîn Muhammad ibn al-Jazari . First part. Published by Gotthelf Bergsträsser . Istanbul: Devlet Matbaasi 1932. (Bibliotheca Islamica. Volume 8a.)
  • The Leica in the service of manuscript research . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 49 (1932) pp. 182–187.
  • The biographical lexicon of the Koran teachers by Sams ad-dîn Muhammad ibn al-Jazari . Second part. Published by Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Otto Pretzl. Istanbul: Devlet Matbaasi 1933. (Bibliotheca Islamica. Volume 8b.)
  • The pamphlet of Gazali against the Ibahija . Translated from the Persian text and edited by Otto Pretzl. Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1933. (Meeting reports of the Philosophical-Historical Department. Issue 7.)
  • The biographical lexicon of the Koran teachers by Sams ad-dîn Muhammad ibn al-Jazari . Third part. Published by Otto Pretzl. Istanbul: Devlet Matbaasi 1934. (Bibliotheca Islamica. Volume 8c.)
  • The science of reading the Koran (ilm al-qira'a). Your literary sources and their pronunciation bases . In: Islamica. Journal for the study of the languages ​​and cultures of the Islamic peoples 6 (1934) pp. 1–47, pp. 230–246 and pp. 290–331.
  • The continuation of the Apparatus Criticus on the Koran . Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1934. (Meeting reports of the Philosophical-Historical Department. Issue 5.)
  • Tasks and goals of Koran research . In: Actes du 20th congres international des orientalistes. Brussels, September 1938. Brussels: Louvain 1938, pp. 328–329.
  • The early Islamic doctrine of attributes. Your ideological foundations and effects , Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1940. (Meeting reports of the Philosophical-Historical Department. Issue 4.)

literature

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB120008793352784631 The Wall Street Journal Andrew Higgins: "The Lost Archive"
  2. ^ Anton Spitaler : Obituary in the magazine of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft 96 (1942), pp. 161–170 .
personal data
SURNAME Pretzl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1941