Julius Euting (11 July 1839 – 2 January 1913) was a German Orientalist.

Life

Director of the National and University Library of Strasbourg, he completed his first studies at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and at the local seminary . He then studied

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and Oriental Languages in

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from 1857 to 1861. Starting in 1867, he made numerous trips to Near and

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, especially Syria and

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. He worked on the

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and published numerous bibliographic catalogs. He also published a tourist work on Strasbourg in 1903. He feigned a conversion to Islam, and, just like his colleague Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, adopted an Arabic name, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb. From 1876 to 1912 he was President of the Vogesenclub (in French Club Vosgien), on which he wrote a history. This association paid homage to him by dedicating the Tower overlooking the

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to his name.

Selected works

* '' Qolastā oder Gesänge und Lehren von der Taufe und dem Ausgang der Seele''. Stuttgart, 1867. * ''Beschreibung der Stadt Strassburg und des Munsters'', Strasbourg, 1881.Catalogo SUDOC
/ref> * ''Tagebuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien'', reprint of the 1896 and 1914 Leiden edition, edited by

Enno Littmann Ludwig Richard Enno Littmann (16 September 1875, Oldenburg – 4 May 1958, Tübingen) was a German orientalist. In 1906 he succeeded Theodor Nöldeke as chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. Later on, he served as a profes ...

, Leiden, 1914 [Reprints u.a. Hildesheim, 2004, ISBN 3-487-12616-8. * ''Katalog der Kaiserlichen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek in Strassburg: Arabische Literatur.'' Strassburg 1877
online
. * ''Nabatäische Inschriften aus Arabien'', Berlin, 1885
online
. * ''Sinaïtische Inschriften'', Berlin, 1891
online
.

Notes

Bibliography

* Hélène Lozachmeur et Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, "Charles Huber und Julius Euting in Arabien nach französischen, auch heute noch nicht veröffentlichten Dokumenten", ''Anabases'', n. 12, 2010, pp. 195–200. * C. J. Lyall, «Julius Euting», in ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (Cambridge), April 1913, pp. 505–510 (necrology). {{DEFAULTSORT:Euting, Julius 1913 deaths 1839 births People from Stuttgart University of Tübingen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen German Arabists German orientalists Explorers of Asia Explorers of Arabia Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Scholars of Mandaeism