Fritz Hommel

Fritz Hommel ( born July 31, 1854 in Ansbach, † April 17, 1936 in Munich) was a German orientalist.

Hommel was a student of Friedrich Delitzsch, studied in Leipzig and completed his habilitation in 1877 in Munich, where he was an associate in 1885 and 1892 full professor of Semitic languages. He taught in Munich for almost half a century and made ​​many students from. His students included, among others, Adam Falkenstein, Muhammad Iqbal and Gershom Scholem.

He was interested in in addition to the linguistic problems for the history of the Near East and their interaction with cultural and intellectual life of the neighbors, for example, in ancient Egypt. His main work was the outline of the geography and history of the Ancient Near East (1904 ), which was given in 1926 by Iwan von Müller and Walter F. Otto, entitled Anthropology and Geography of the Ancient Orient out again. Towards the end of his life he dealt with the history of the Munich district of Schwabing artists where he had his home.

His son was the classic philologist Hildebrecht Hommel ( 1899-1996 ).

Writings

  • The Ethiopian translation of the Physiologus. Leipzig 1877.
  • The names of mammals in the südsemitischen peoples: to contribute to the Arab and Ethiopian lexicography, to the Semitic culture research and comparative philology and the history of the Mediterranean fauna. With constant Berücksichtiung also the Assyrian and Hebrew animal names and geographical and literary historical Excursen. Leipzig, 1879.
  • Two inscriptions Ashurbanipal hunting. Leipzig, 1879.
  • The Semitic peoples and languages. Vol 1 Leipzig 1883.
  • The oldest Arabic version of Barlaam. Vienna 1887.
  • Outline of the history of the ancient East. Nördlingen 1887.
  • History of Babylonia and Assyria. Berlin 1885.
  • The Babylonian origin of Egyptian culture. Munich 1892.
  • Essays and papers arabi table - semitologischen content Vol. I -III. Munich from 1892 to 1901.
  • South Arabian anthology. Munich 1893.
  • Sumerian reading pieces. Munich 1894.
  • The altisraelische tradition in epigraphic lighting. Munich 1896.
  • History of ancient Orient. Leipzig 1904.
  • The star-worship of the ancient Arabs and the altisraelische tradition. Munich 1900.
  • Four new Arab landscape names in the Old Testament. Munich 1901.
  • Two hundred sumero -Turkish Wortvergleichungen as the basis for a new chapter of linguistics. Munich 1915 ( digitized ).
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