Richard Gosche

Richard Gosche (born June 4, 1824 in Neuendorf near Crossen ; † October 29, 1889 in Halle (Saale) ) was a literary historian and orientalist.

Gosche studied oriental, classical and modern philology in Leipzig from 1842, later in Berlin, and after receiving his doctorate in 1847 received a position at the royal library in Berlin. After he completed his habilitation at the university there in 1852, he was appointed associate professor in 1860 and in 1863 appointed full professor of oriental philology at the University of Halle, where he also gave lectures on literary history.

Published by him:

De ariana linguae gentisque Armeniacae indole prolegomena . (Berlin 1847);
The Alhambra (Berlin 1854);
Annual scientific reports on the oriental studies (Leipzig 1857 ff.), Which he published as a board member of the German Oriental Society;
Al-Ghazzali's life and works (Berlin 1858);
The Kitab-el-awâil . (Berlin 1865);
Archive for the History of Literature (Leipzig 1870–71, continued by Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld );
Richard Wagner 's Frauengestalten (on pictures by Bauer and Limmer, Leipzig 1883);
Georg Ebers depicted as a researcher and poet (Leipzig 1886).

With Benno Tschischwitz, he revised and commented on the Grotesche edition of Schlegel-Tieck's Shakespeare translation (Berlin 1875), with Robert Boxberger Lessing's works (Berlin 1875).

His daughter, the art historian and philologist Agnes Gosche , is a pioneer in professional women's education in Germany.

literature

Ludwig Fränkel: Gosche, Richard Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 469-474.

Web links

Entry on Richard Gosche in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Gosche estate

personal data
SURNAME	Gosche, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gosche, Richard Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuendorf near Crossen
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1889
Place of death	Halle (Saale)