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Hermann Brockhaus (January 28, 1806 – January 5, 1877) was a German

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born in

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. He was a leading authority on

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and

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s. He was the son of publisher

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (4 May 1772 – 20 August 1823) was a German German(s) may refer to: Common uses * of or related to Germany * Germans, Germanic ethnic group, citizens of Germany or people of German ances ...

and brother-in-law to composer

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In:

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(ADB). Band 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, S. 263–272. In 1870 he received a combined medal (together with (

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, Pott and Rödiger) in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DMG.

Academic career

He studied

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at the Universities of

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and

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Bonn

where he was a student of

August Wilhelm von Schlegel August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel (; ; 8 September 176712 May 1845), usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His tr ...

, the founder of German

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. Afterwards he spent several years in France and England. In 1839 he was appointed associate professor of oriental languages at the

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, teaching

and Hebrew beginning in the summer term of 1840.Herausragende Gelehrte der Alma mater , Der Indologe und Orientalist Hermann Brockhaus
Leipziger Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Together with his colleague

Johann Gustav Stickel Johann Gustav Stickel (7 July 1805 – 21 January 1896) was a German theologian, orientalist and numismatist at Jena University The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universit ...

(who taught

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), Brockhaus established oriental philology at the School of Humanities at Jena.German Orientalism: The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945
by Ursula Wokoeck In 1841 Brockhaus followed an appointment to Leipzig, where in 1848 he was appointed a full professor of ancient Indian language at the university.Pierer's Universal-Lexicon
(translated biography) After his death, he was succeeded at the university by

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Published works

Among his better-known works are an edition of '' Kathâsarit-sâgara'' (a large collection of tales by Somadeva) and an edition of songs by the Persian lyric poet

Hafez Khāwje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1315-1390) and as "Hafiz", was ...

Hafez

(''Lieder des Hafis''). He also published an edition of the '' Vendidâd Sâde'', an edition of a philosophical drama by Krishna Mishra called ''Prabodhachandrodaya'' and was the author of the influential ''Über den Druck sanskritischer Werke mit lateinischen Buchstaben'' (Concerning Sanskrit Works Printed in Latin Letters). From 1853 he was editor of the "''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft''" (Journal of the German Oriental Society), and for a period of time was editor of the Ersch-Gruber ''Allgemeine Encyklopädie''.

References

Stefan Heidemann Stefan Heidemann (born 1961 in Versmold in Westphalia) is a Germany, German oriental studies, orientalist at University of Hamburg, Hamburg University, Hamburg. Biography Islamic studies including Islamic Art and economics in University of Regensb ...

, "Zwischen Theologie und Philologie: Der Paradigmenwechsel in der Jenaer Orientalistik 1770 bis 1850." In ''Der Islam'' 84 (2008), pp. 140–184. * H.C. Kellner, in: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' vol. 47, pp. 263–272. {{DEFAULTSORT:Brockhaus, Hermann German orientalists German Indologists Writers from Amsterdam Leipzig University faculty University of Jena faculty 1806 births 1877 deaths

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Brockhaus family