Hermann Brockhaus

Hermann Brockhaus ( born January 28, 1806 Amsterdam, † 5 January 1877 in Leipzig ) was a German orientalist.

Life

The third son of the publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus studied in Leipzig, Göttingen and Bonn Oriental languages ​​, especially Sanskrit, lived long in France and England and then settled in Dresden. From there he moved to 1839 as a professor in Jena and Leipzig 1841, where he became in 1848 professor of ancient Indian language and literature. He died there on January 5, 1877. Brockhaus had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig Academy and was in the year 1872/73 Rector of the Alma Mater.

Family

In 1836 he married Ottilie Wagner, sister of the composer Richard Wagner. His first son Clemens Brockhaus (1837-1877) was later a professor in Leipzig, the younger son Friedrich Brockhaus (1838-1895) professor in Basel, Kiel, Marburg and Jena.

Work

The Field of the Old Indic belong to his editions of the Prabodhachandrodaya, a philosophical drama of Krishna Micra, and the Kathâsarit - Sagara, a collection of fairy tales from Somadeva Bhatta. His edition of part of the Zend-Avesta, the Vendidad Sade, contributed very much to the relief of Zendstudiums. He also published two Persian texts. a critical edition of Songs of Hafiz and likewise the Persian editor of the book of the seven wise masters. Since 1853 he edited for many years the Journal of the German Oriental Society, of which he was the founder, and in which he published various treatises own, and since 1856 the General Encyclopedia of Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber. His proposal About the print Sanskrit works with Latin characters has found almost universal acceptance.