Wilhelm Hoenerbach

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Wilhelm Hoenerbach (born March 21, 1911 in Cologne , † May 10, 1991 in Troisdorf ) was a German scholar of Islam .

Life

Wilhelm Hoenerbach studied Islamic studies and philology (English and Romance studies) in Cologne and Bonn. In 1934 he became a member of the DMG . In 1936 he received his doctorate with a major in Islamic studies in Bonn. He became Otto Spies' assistant in Breslau. On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 4.016.408).

In 1939 he completed his habilitation with Spies at the University of Breslau . From 1946 on he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Bonn and was Spies' assistant at the Oriental Seminary. In 1954 he received an extraordinary professorship in Bonn, and in 1959 a visiting professorship in Los Angeles . From 1962 to 1970 he held the chair for Islamic studies at the University of Kiel , after which he headed the Oriental Seminary at the University of Bonn until his retirement in 1976.

A special focus of Hoenerbach's work was the research and publication of sources on Islamic rule in Al-Andalus . In his time, Hoenerbach was considered the most important German expert on Spanish and North African Islam. In a detailed foreword to his 1970 translation of the chronicles of Ibn al-Khatib (1313-1374), he compares his view of history with that of the poet and chronicler Pedro López de Ayala (1332-1407).

Hoenerbach was a member of the KDB Rheno-Guestphalia zu Bonn in the RKDB .

Fonts

  • Germany and its neighboring countries according to the great geography of Idrısı († 1162, Sections, 5, 2 and 6, 2) (= Bonn oriental studies; H. 21). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1938 (also: Bonn, Phil. Diss., 1938).
  • The North African Itinerary of ʿAbdarl from the year 688/1289 (= treatises for the customer of the Orient; Vol. 25,4). German Orient. Ges .; FA Brockhaus in commission, Leipzig 1940 (also Breslau, Phil. F., Hab.-Schr., 1939).
  • Waṯīma's Kitāb ar-Ridda from Ibn Hağar's Iṣāba. A contribution to the history of the apostasy of the Arab tribes after Muḥammads death (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and Social Sciences Class. Born 1951, No. 4). Verlag der Akademie d. Sciences and literature, Mainz; Steiner on commission, Wiesbaden 1951.
  • Cervantes and the Orient. Verl. F. Orient Studies, Walldorf / Hessen 1953.
  • The vulgar Arabic poetics Al-ḳitāb al- ʿāṭil al-ḥālī wal-muraḫḫaṣ al-ġālī of Ṣafīyaddīn Ḥillī. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1956.
  • The North African shadow theater. Rheingold-Verlag, Mainz 1959.
  • Spanish-Islamic documents from the times of the Naṣrids and Moriscos. Oriental. Seminar d. Univ., Bonn 1965 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • The Orient in Research. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967.
  • Arabs and Mediterranean. Hirt, Kiel 1967.
  • Poetic comparisons of the Andalusian Arabs Ibn-al-Kattānī, Abū-ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn-al-Ḥasan. Oriental. Seminar d. Univ. Bonn, Bonn 1973.
  • Studies on the (Moors-and-Christians) festival in Andalusia. Verlag für Orientkunde Vorndran, Walldorf (Hessen) 1975, ISBN 3-936687-24-2 .
  • Agrarian ideas in North Africa. Logs. Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, commission publisher F. Steiner, 1984. ISBN 3-515-04064-1

Translations

  • Ibn-aţ-Taijib : Fiqh an-naşrānīya. The right of Christianity. Edited by Wilhelm Hoenerbach and Otto Spies (= Corpus scriptorum christianorum Orientalium; Vol. 167: Scriptores Arabici; T. 18). Imprimerie orientaliste, Louvain 1957 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Ibn al-Khatib : Islamic History of Spain. Translation of the A'mal al-A'lam and additional texts . Artemis, Zurich 1970 ( limited preview in Google book search).

literature

  • Heinrich Schützinger: Wilhelm Hoenerbach in memory. In: Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1992), pp. 1–5 ( JSTOR 1570611 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 492.
  2. Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 37.
  3. El mundo ibérico a través del libro alemán . In: Humboldt , No. 43 (1970), p. 83.
  4. ^ Karl Kossert (ed.): Complete directory of the RKB . Berlin 1967.