Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten

Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten ( born September 10, 1792 in Old Churches ( Rügen); † August 18, 1860 in Greifswald ) was a German orientalist and linguist. His father was Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, poet and pastor to old churches.

Life

Kosegarten studied oriental languages ​​in Paris only in Greifswald theology and philosophy, then from 1812 to 1815 Adjunct of the theological and philosophical faculty in Greifswald. His lectures on the Pomeranian country's history led him to surrender the old Pomeranian Chronicle of Kantzow ( Greifswald 1816-17 ), which he followed later Pomeranian and rügische historical monuments ( Greifswald 1834) and the Codex Pomeraniae diplomaticus ( Greifswald 1843).

Appointed in 1817 as professor of Oriental languages ​​to Jena, he gave the Moallaka the Arab poet Amr ben Kolthum ( Jena 1819), it in conjunction with Iken the Persian fairy tale collection Tuti Nameh (Stuttgart 1822) out and translated the Indian poem Nala ( Jena 1820).

Even with the decipherment of ancient Egyptian fonts he worked. 1824 recalled to the University of Greifswald, he worked after Arabic manuscripts to Paris, Gotha, and Berlin its Chrestomathia arabica ( Leipz. 1828) and began the unfinished spending the Arab annals of Taberi: Annales Taberlstanenses ( Greifswald 1831-53 ), the Arab songs collection Kitab al Aghani (Vol. 1, das. 1846) and the Indian fable collection Panchatantra, of which the first part (Bonn, 1848) contains the simpler review, while the second, of which only the first delivery ( Greifswald 1859) appeared, the specific text should be paid.

Unfinished his edition of the Arabic poem The Hudsailian poems (London 1854 ) and his Dictionary of niederdeutschen.Sprache (Vol. 1, Greifswald) 1859-60 ) remained. Kosegarten also wrote a history of the University of Greifswald ( Greifswald from 1856 to 1857, 2 vols ) and provided contributions to the knowledge of the Maltese -Arab and German dialects. In the years 1829, 1838 and 1851 he was rector of the University of Greifswald.

He died on 18 August 1860 in Greifswald. His numerous manuscripts and handwritten works of Oriental and German literature, he has bequeathed to the University of Greifswald.

Kosegarten was married to Justine Susemihl ( 1805-1893 ). His son August ( born July 12, 1836) died in 1867 at the consequences of a serious injury, which he sustained in the participation in the battle of Hradec Kralove.

Writings (selection )

  • Nala. An Indian seal. Jena 1820 digitized
  • Remarks about the Egyptian text of a papyrus from the Minutolischen collection. Greifswald 1824 digitized
  • Ludwig Gotthard Kosegartens life. Greifswald 1826 digitized
  • Chrestomathia Arabica. Leipzig 1828 digitized
  • Pomeranian and Rügische historical monuments. Greifswald 1834
  • News of the rediscovery of the hand -written by Thomas Kantzow zweyten High German writing his Pomeranian Chronicle. Greifswald 1842 digitized
  • Message from the origin and nature of the first city of Greifswald. Greifswald 1846 digitized
  • History of the University of Greifswald First part of 1857 digitized
  • Second part of 1856 digitized
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