Justus Olshausen

Justus Olshausen ( born May 9, 1800 High Field ( Steinburg ), † December 28, 1882 in Berlin) was a German orientalist and university teachers.

Life

Justus Olshausen was the son of the Superintendent Detlev Olshausen and younger brother Hermann Olshausen. He studied Oriental languages ​​at the Christian- Albrechts- University of Kiel, Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and the Sorbonne ( Silvestre de Sacy in ). During his studies, he became in 1816 a member of the old Kiel fraternity.

Immediately after his graduation in Kiel Dr. phil. He was appointed in 1823 by the University of Kiel in 1830 as an associate and full professor. How else just Niels Nicholas Falck he was five times president of the CAU: 1836/37, 1839 /40, 1840/41, 1845/46 and 1846 / 47th In 1841 he undertook a scientific journey to the Orient. In 1848 he was curator of the CAU.

He was also the time of Schleswig- Holstein Survey ( to 1849 ) Vice President of the State Assembly. With it, he braced himself against the increasing pressure of the Kingdom of Denmark to the German duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. When the Schleswig- Holstein army had lost the Schleswig- Holstein war, Olshausen has therefore been removed from his position as curator and soon afterwards his Ordinariate in 1852 by the crown of Denmark. In 1853 he went to the Albertus University of Königsberg, where his brother Hermann was 1827-1834 Full Professor of Protestant Theology. Justus was chief librarian of the University Library Königsberg and taught Oriental languages ​​.

From late 1858 to 1874 ( about the three wars of unification of time ), he was a lecturer and speaker advice for all Prussian universities in the Prussian Ministry of the spiritual, educational and medical Alan opportunities in Berlin. Since 1860 he was a full member of the Royal. Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Olshausen sons were, inter alia, the gynecologist Robert Michaelis of Olshausen and the senior prosecutor and the Senate President at the imperial court of Justus Olshausen. After Justus Olshausen, the street is named for today's University of Kiel. By 1969, they sailed the "Scholar Express ", a single-car line 2 tram Kiel.

Works

  • Critical edition of the Zend-Avesta, in two volumes ( in Latin ): Vendidad Zend Avestae pars XX: adhuc superstes
  • Emendations to the Old Testament. Kiel 1826
  • The Pehlewilegenden on the coins of the last Sasanian. Copenhagen 1843
  • Catalogue of Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Copenhagen 1851
  • Explanation of the Psalms. Leipzig 1853
  • Textbook of the Hebrew language. Braunschweig 1861
  • Examination of the character contained in the Assyrian cuneiform writings Semitic language. Berlin 1865
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