Gustav Weil

Gustav Weil ( born April 25, 1808 in Sulzburg; † August 29, 1889 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German orientalist.

Gustav Weil was supposed to be a rabbi, but he was able to not get anything. From 1828 to 1830 he studied history and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and 1830 Silvestre de Sacy briefly in Paris. From there he went as a correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung to Algiers in 1831 and then traveled on to Cairo, where he stayed until 1835. Here and in Constantinople Opel, he deepened his knowledge of Arabic and other oriental languages. In 1836 he received his doctorate in Tübingen, the same year he completed his Habilitation in Heidelberg. From 1836 to 1845 he has taught at the University of Heidelberg and was a librarian at the University Library of Heidelberg. In 1845 he became the first Jew in Germany and against the opposition of the University associate professor of Oriental Languages ​​, 1861 finally full professor in Heidelberg.

Gustav Weil knew, on the basis of manuscripts and printed books to write at that time widespread historical and literary-historical representations. Particularly well known, he has become the first original factory and completely translated from the original text edition of the Arabian Nights.

History of the Caliphs

Weil has in his history of Caliphs in three volumes (1846-1851) and their continued history of Abbasidenchalifats in Egypt (1860-1862) made ​​the first attempt to present the history of Islam 632-1517 based on independent processing of Arabic historical sources, he particularly takes into account the history of literature.

Works

  • The Biblical legends of the Mussulmans. Frankfurt 1845.
  • History of the Caliphs; I. From the death of Mohammed to the fall of Omeijaden, with inclusion of the history of Spain, from the invasion of the Arabs until separation from the eastern Chalifate. , 1846.
  • History of the Caliphs; II The Abbasids to the capture of Baghdad by the Buyids: d H. 1848 ( The appendix contains 132-334 ". Advances in Arabic literature from the middle of the third to about the middle of the fourth century the Hidjrah ) "
  • History of the Caliphs; IV The Caliphate under the Bahritischen Mamlukensultanen of Egypt: 656-792 d H. 1860
  • History of the Caliphs; V. The Caliphate under the Circassian Mamlukensultanen of Egypt: 792-923 d H. 1862
  • History of the Islamic peoples clearly displayed., 1866.
  • The Life of Muhammad by Muhammad Ibn Ishak. 2 volumes, 1864 (online).
  • History of Abbasidenchalifats in Egypt (sic ), Stuttgart: JB Metzler, 1860-62.
  • Historical-Critical Introduction to the Qur'an. Bielefeld 1844.
  • The Life of Muhammad by Muhammad Ibn Ishak edited by Abd el -Malik Ibn Hisham, translated by Dr. G. Weil. Stuttgart 1864.
  • Mohammed the Prophet, his life and his teaching: drawn from manuscript sources and the Koran and presented. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1843.
  • Poetical literature of the Arabs. Stuttgart 1837.
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