Adolf Wahrmund

Adolf Wahrmund ( born June 10, 1827 in Wiesbaden, † May 15, 1913 in Vienna ) was a German orientalist and writer.

Life

Adolf True mouth came from very humble background. Sponsored by generous grants, he was able to attend high school in Wiesbaden and study. In Göttingen he took philosophy and theology. Later he moved to the University of Vienna and studied classical and Oriental philology.

His livelihood financed true mouth at this time as a private tutor. In the years 1853-1861 he worked as a collaborator at the Court Library in Vienna. The following year he was appointed as a lecturer in Oriental languages ​​(Arabic, Persian, Turkish ) to the University of Vienna.

From 1870 onwards, had fortune mouth in parallel as a lecturer at the kk Oriental Academy. Between 1885 and 1897 he became head of the Academy has been entrusted. In addition, he was appointed full professor. According to his own statements, true mouth wrote " ... for relaxation ... " also plays ( Battle of Vienna ) and poetry ( fables, parables and poems time ).

The lawyer Ludwig true mouth is his son.

On May 15, 1913 Adolf Wahrmund died at the age of 85 years in Vienna.

True anti-Semitism in the mouth works

Adolf Wahrmund discredited its scientific claim by its 1887 first published anti-Semitic, political and pseudo-scientific publication The Law of nomadism and today's Jewish domination. In this book he presents the Semitic peoples (eg, Arabs, Jews ) that they are not to be capable of a community to achieve cultural and technical achievements and therefore parasitically from other non-Semitic peoples must live. Therefore, one should expel the Jews from Europe. Precisely because his diatribe in 1922 for a second time appeared, he became one of the most visible representatives of the many recognized university professors of the 19th and 20th centuries, often against their better knowledge of their time, the relevant intellectual pioneers of the pseudo- science-based anti-Semitism and antiziganism one hand, and the superiority claim of Western culture on the other hand were.

Works

  • The historiography of the Greeks. 1859
  • Dictionary of Arabic and German. 1877
  • Babylonierthum, Judaism and Christianity. 1882
  • Practical Handbook of the Ottoman- Turkish language. 1884
  • The Christian school and Judaism. 1885
  • Practical Handbook of the newly - Arabic languages. 1886
  • The law of Nomadenthums and today's Jewish domination. 1887
  • The cultural struggle between Asia and Europe. 1887
  • Battle for Vienna. 1894
  • Fables, parables, and other times the poems. 1896
  • Pocket dictionary of the German language and neuarabischen. 1898

Translations

  • Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, 1864
  • Diodorus of Sicily History Library, 1866
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