Georg Rosen (1821–1891)
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (24 September 1820[1] in Detmold, Principality of Lippe – 29 October 1891 in Detmold) was a German (Lippe/Prussian) Orientalist and diplomat.
Biography
He studied in Berlin and Leipzig. From 1844, he was a dragoman at the Prussian embassy in Constantinople. From 1853 he was the Prussian consul in Jerusalem,[2] and from 1867 Consul General of the North German Confederation from 1871 of the German Empire, in Beograd. In 1875, Rosen returned to Detmold in Lippe.
Rosen was a friend of E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge, together with his wife, spent a prolonged visit to Rosen's home in 1885.[3]
Family
The Orientalist Friedrich August Rosen was a his brother, their father, Friedrich Ballhorn-Rosen, originating from Denmark, was Chancellor of the Principality of Lippe. Georg Rosen married Serena Anna (1830−1902), a painter, and daughter of the composer Ignaz Moscheles. By her he was father of Friedrich Rosen, also diplomat and for a short time German foreign minister, and Jelka Rosen, also a painter. His namesake grandson Georg Rosen (1895–1961) was also diplomat and helped organising the Nanking Safety Zone in 1937.
Works
- "Rudimenta persica" (Leipzig, 1843)
- "Über die Sprache der Lazen" (Lemgo, 1844)
- "Ossetische Grammatik" (Lemgo, 1846).
- "Tuti-nameh" (Leipzig, 1858, 2 vols)
- "Das Haram zu Jerusalem und der Tempelplatz des Moria" (Gotha, 1866)
- "Geschichte der Türkei vom Sieg der Reform 1826 bis zum Pariser Traktat 1856" (Leipzig, 1866–67, 2 vols.)
- "Die Balkan-Haiduken" (Leipzig, 1878)
- "Bulgarische Volksdichtungen, ins Deutsche übertragen" (Leipzig, 1879)
References
- Notes
- ↑ Cf. Gregor Pelger (2005), "Rosen, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 51–52; (full text online)
- ↑ Zeev W. Sadmon, Die Gründung des Technions in Haifa im Lichte deutscher Politik: 1907–1920, Munich et al.: Saur, 1994, (=Einzelveröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin; vol. 78), p. 22. Simultaneously.: Trier, Univ., Diss. ISBN 3-598-23222-5.
- ↑ Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, KT., M.A. & Litt.D. Cambridge, M.A. & D.Litt. Oxford, D.LiT. Durham, F.S.A. A NARRATIVE OF JOURNEYS IN EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM BETWEEN THE YEARS 1886 AND 1913, journal in the library of the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1920, p.159.
- Bibliography
- Gregor Pelger (2005), "Rosen, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 51–52; (full text online)
- Meyers Konversationslexikon