Christian Martin Frähn

Christian Martin Joachim Frähn (* June 4, 1782 in Rostock, .. † 16 Augustjul / August 28 1851greg in Saint Petersburg ) was a German orientalist and numismatist.

Life

Frähn, son of a tailor like his teacher Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1834-1815), studied at Rostock and Göttingen and Tübingen preferably Oriental Languages ​​, 1806, lecturer at the university of his native city, in 1807 professor of oriental languages ​​at Kazan, and in 1817 a member of the Academy of Sciences and head librarian in St. Petersburg, founder of the Asiatic Museum of the Academy and its director from 1818 to 1842. He died as the State Council on August 16, 1851 ( according to the Gregorian calendar: August 28 ).

Works (selection)

The Arabic linguistics, the Mohammedan history and numismatics have found in him one of the most thorough agents. He wrote among other things:

• Numophylacium Orientale Pototianum. Riga: Hartmann, 1813.
• Contributions to the Mohammedan numismatics from St. Petersburg: or selection of rare and remarkable, hitherto unknown Muhammadan coins from the cabinet of P. plow. Berlin, 1820.
• Antiquitatis Muhammedanae monumental varia. St. Petersburg 1820-22, 2 vols
• Ibn - Foszlan 's and Other Arabs of reports of the Russians earlier period. Frähn, Christian Martin. - Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Islamic Science - Arab., 1994, Reprint of the ed St. Petersburg 1823 / Institute for the History of Arabic - Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Hamburg:. Buske, 1976 Nachdr d ed of 1823.

From his estate Opusculorum gave thorn " postumorum out ... ( 2 vols, St. Petersburg 1855, 1877).