Georg Freytag

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag ( born September 19, 1788 in Lüneburg, † November 16, 1861 in Bonn ) was a German orientalist.

Life

Freytag studied at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen Theology and received a 1811 Repetentenstelle. In 1815 he was Brigade preacher at Königsberg ( Prussia ), and thereby came to Paris. Here he made ​​friends with Silvestre de Sacy and sat under his authority even after Napoleon Bonaparte 's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo his studies of Arabic, Persian and Turkish language continued until he was appointed in 1819 as Professor of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Bonn.

His most important work is the four-volume Lexicon arabico - latinum (Hall 1830-1837 ). This is the strongly enlarged edition of the same work by Jacobus Golius ( Lexicon Arabico - Latinum suffering. Typis Bonaventuræ & Abrahami Elseviriorum, 1653).

For students Freytag et al was the Swiss theologian Louis Segond and Abraham Geiger, the founder of Reform Judaism in Germany.

More fonts

• Selecta ex historia Halebi, Paris 1819
• Locmani fabulae, Bonn 1823
• Hamasa, Bonn 1828-52, 2 volumes
• Representation of Arabic versification, Bonn 1830, 2nd edition 1838
• Ebn Arabschah, Bonn 1832-52
• Chrestomathia arabica, Bonn 1834
• Arabum Proverbia, Bonn 1838-43, 3 volumes