Joseph Derenbourg

Joseph Derenbourg (originally Their castle and later Dernburg ), ( born August 21, 1811 in Mainz, † July 29, 1895 in Bad Ems), was a German - French Orientalist and Sanskritist Jewish descent.

Their castle studied in Giessen and Bonn Oriental and moved in 1839 to Paris, where he continued his studies and a higher educational institution for male students founded the Jewish faith, which he headed until 1864. 1843 married Their castle and got the French citizenship, after which it a few months later his surname in Derenbourg changed.

Then he devoted himself exclusively to his scientific research. On 22 December 1871 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and received in 1876 the structures created for him Chair of the Talmudic and Biblical Studies at the École pratique des hautes études. Apart from numerous articles in Abraham Geiger's Jewish periodicals, he published among other things, translated from the Arabic inscriptions of the Alhambra, the Arabian fables of Lokman (1846), the second edition of a series of epigraphic contributions in the Journal asiatique (1877 ), and essays on himjaritische texts. Derenbourg was co-editor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum the Academy. His son Hartwig Derenbourg was also an Orientalist.