Walther Björkman

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Walther Björkman , complete Johannes Walther Oscar Emanuel Björkman (born June 19, 1896 in Lübeck , † November 24, 1996 in Uppsala ) was a German - Swedish orientalist .

Life

Björkman was the son of the teacher and author Carl Viktor Emanuel Björkman (1868–1931), who came from Sweden to Lübeck, and his German wife, the writer Marie Henriette, née. Schlikau. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and graduated from high school here in 1915. As a Swedish citizen, he did not take part in the First World War as a soldier . He studied oriental studies at the universities of Bonn, Kiel and Munich and was awarded a doctorate in 1919 in Kiel with a dissertation on Ofen (Buda) during the Turkish period. phil. PhD.

He then became an assistant at the newly founded University of Hamburg . In 1921 he became a German citizen. In 1927 he was appointed lecturer in Islamic studies in Hamburg . In 1929 he moved to the University of Berlin as a professor of Arabic , where he also taught Islamic studies from 1930. In 1942 he became an adjunct professor of Arabic and in 1944 he went to the University of Breslau as a professor of Turkish Studies .

After the end of the war he fled to the west and then went to Sweden . At Uppsala University he was appointed lecturer in Turkish languages ​​in 1951 and took on the Swedish citizenship again. From 1953 to 1959 he lived and worked in Ankara as a professor for classical oriental languages ​​at the University of Ankara . In 1959 he returned to his old position as a lecturer for Turkish languages ​​in Uppsala and stayed here until his retirement in 1963.

Works

  • Furnace in Turkish times mainly based on Turkish sources. Hamburg 1920 (treatises on foreign studies from Hamburg University 3), also Kiel, Phil. Diss.
  • Contributions to the history of the State Chancellery in Islamic Egypt. Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter & Co. 1928 ( Treatises from the field of foreign studies 28), Zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1927
    • Reprint Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arab.-Islamic Science 1992
    • (Italian translation with introduction by Dr. phil. Milena Rampoldi): Cancelleria di Stato nell'Egitto islamico , Gruppo Edicom, Cerro Maggiore 2014
  • Problems of the Egyptian education system. Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1940 (The World of Islam 22)
  • Arab leaders. Heidelberg: Vowinckel 1944

literature

  • Lars Johanson: In Memoriam Walter Björkman (1896-1996). In: Orientalia Suecana 45/46 (1996–1997), pp. 5–7 ( digitized version ; PDF; 279 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See his memoirs: The Katharineum at the outbreak of war. In: Festschrift for the four hundredth anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1531–1931. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1931, pp. 146–154
personal data
SURNAME Björkman, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Björkman, Johannes Walther Oscar Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1996
Place of death Uppsala