August Dillmann

Christian Friedrich August Dillmann ( born April 25, 1823 in Illingen, † July 4, 1894 in Berlin) was a German orientalist and theologian. He was a son of the schoolmaster Elias Dillmann (1794-1877) and a brother of Christian by Dillmann ( 1829-1899 ).

Life

In 1840 Dillmann studied at the University of Tübingen theology and philosophy. In 1844 he became a member of the Royal Society Roigel, a Tübingen student association. He devoted himself as a pupil Heinrich Georg August Ewald Oriental Studies. After the PhD. He studied from 1846 to 1848 Ethiopian manuscripts in Paris, London and Oxford. After his return Dillmann was in Tübingen Repetent at Tubingen, in 1851 a lecturer and associate professor in 1853.

In 1854, he moved to this property to the University of Kiel, where he received the 1860 full professor of oriental languages. 1864 moved Dillmann as professor of Old Testament exegesis at the University of Giessen. In 1869 he was. At the University of Berlin as successor to Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg, Professor of Old Testament Studies and Oriental Languages 1875/76 he held the office of Rector of the University of Berlin. At the International Congress of Orientalists 1881 he was president.

As a leading expert of the Ethiopian language and literature Dillmann was known as the new founder of the Ethiopian Philology. Masterpieces of philological detail work are his commentaries on the Old Testament. Dill 's scientific bequest and its library (about 5,000 volumes ) were prepared by Paul Haupt (financed by the German -born tobacco merchant Georg Wilhelm Gail ) founded in 1898 the Library of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Writings

• Grammar of the Ethiopian language. In 1857.
• Lexicon linguae aethiopicae. , 1865.
• Chrestomathia aethiopica. , 1866.