Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje ( born February 8, 1857 in Oosterhout, † June 26, 1936 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Arabist and Islamic scholar.

Life

Snouck Hurgronje studied in Breda represented, since 1874 in Leiden, first theology, but devoted himself mainly to the study of Oriental languages ​​, particularly the Arab under Michael Jan de Goeje, and acquired in 1880 with his dissertation on "Het Mekkaansche feest " doctoral degrees of Semitic languages. After further studies in Strasbourg ( December 1880-August 1881 ), where he drove under Theodor Nöldeke Syrian, he was a lecturer in Islamic law at the Seminar for Officials in the Dutch East Indies to suffering and undertook in 1884 an expedition to Arabia, where he, as an Islamic legal scholar dressed, half a year spent in Mecca. The results of this journey, he lay down in a fundamental work " Mecca " ( The Hague, 1888-89, 2 vols and atlas of images ). On his return (1885 ) also appointed lecturer at the University, he joined in 1888 by order of the government, a scientific trip to the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, at. The transferred him briefly after his departure Chair of the Malay language at the University of Leiden he struck out in order to study the long time the state of Islam in the Dutch East Indies thoroughly.

At his instigation Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz was used as Pazifikator to end the Atjehkrieg. He remained in the Dutch East Indies until 1906, when he became professor of Arabic languages ​​in Leiden. 1921/22, he served as rector of the University of Leiden. Even after this time, he played an important role in the Dutch colonial policy as a consultant for domestic and Arab stuff.

Writings (selection )

  • Mekkanische proverbs and sayings, 1886
  • De beteekenis van den Islam voor zijne belijders in Oost- Indie, 1883
  • Mr. LWC van den Berg's beoefening van het Mohammedan law, 1884
  • The Mahdi, 1885
  • Mohamm. s quite rechtswetenschap, 1886
  • De Islam, 1887
  • De fiqh en de vergelijkende rechtswetenschap, 1886
  • Contributions récentes à la connaissance de l' Islam, 1886
  • Mecca ( dt ) 2 vols pictures Atlas. Hague: Nijhoff 1888-89 ( Facsimilereprint 2006 by Verlag Fines Mundi ) Vol 1 The city and its Men 1888
  • Vol 2 From the today's life in 1889
  • Pictures Atlas 1888
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