Eduard Sachau
Carl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845, Neumünster – 17 September 1930, Berlin) was a German orientalist.
Biography
He studied oriental languages at the Universities of Kiel and Leipzig, obtaining his PhD at Halle in 1867. Sachau became a professor extraordinary of Semitic philology (1869) and a full professor (1872) at the University of Vienna, and in 1876, a professor at the University of Berlin, where he was appointed director of the new Seminar of Oriental languages (1887).[1][2]
He travelled to the Near East on several occasions (see his book Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien, published 1883) . He is especially noteworthy for his work on Syriac and other Aramaic dialects. He was an expert on Persian polymath Al-Biruni and wrote a translation of Kitab ta'rikh al-Hind, Al-Biruni's encyclopedic work on India.[3][4]
While a student at Kiel, he became part of the fraternity Teutonia Kiel (1864). He was a member of the Vienna and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London and the American Oriental Society. He worked as a consultant in the planning and construction of the Baghdad Railway. Among his better known students was Eugen Mittwoch, a founder of modern Islamic studies in Germany.[5]
Bibliography
- Inedita Syriaca. Eine Sammlung syrischer Übersetzungen von Schriften griechischer Profanliteratur, 1870 – A collection of Syriac translations of writings from Greek secular literature.
- Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien, Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1883 – Journey to Syria and Mesopotamia.
- Muhammedanisches recht nach schafiitischer lehre, Stuttgart, Berlin, W. Spemann, 1897 – Islamic law in regards to Shafi'i teaching.
- Am Euphrat und Tigris : reisenotizen aus dem winter 1897-1898, Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1900 – The Euphrates and Tigris, travelogue in the winter of 1897-1898.
- "Three Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine, Egypt" in Smithsonian Institution Annual Report (1907): 605-11. [Translated and abstracted, by permission, from Drei Aramaeische Papyrusurkunden aus Elephantine by Eduard Sachau in the Abhandlungen der koeniglichen preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften for the year 1907.]
- "Alberuni's India. An account of the religion, philosophy, literature, geography, chronology, astronomy, customs, laws and astrology of India about A.D. 1030", (published in English) London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1910.
- Die chronik von Arbela, ein beitrag zur kenntnis des ältesten christentums im Orient, Berlin, Verlag der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, in kommission bei Georg Reimer, 1915 – The chronicle of Arbela, a contribution to the knowledge of the oldest Christianity in the Orient.
- Arabische Erzählungen aus der Zeit der Kalifen, München: Hyperionverlag, 1920 – Arabic tales from the time of the Caliphs.[6]
References
- ↑ Die Nachfolger der Exegeten: deutschsprachige Erforschung des Vorderen by Ludmila Hanisch
- ↑ Plett - Schmidseder by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated
- ↑ WorldCat title Kitab al-Biruni fi tahqiq ma lil-Hind, etc.
- ↑ Brockhaus' Zeno.org Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
- ↑ "Paragraph based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
- ↑ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Eduard Sachau
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