Michael Jan de Goeje

Michael Jan de Goeje also: Michael Johan de Goeje, Michaël Jan de Goeje ( born August 13, 1836 in Dronrijp (Friesland), † May 17, 1909 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Orientalist Frisian origin.

Life

Michael January was the son of the pastor Pieter de Goeje (* June 4, 1806 in Enkhuizen, † January 8, 1854 in Heerenveen ) and its geheirateten in Leiden on March 9, 1832 Mrs. Wilhelmina Bernardina by Schilling ( born August 1, 1810 in Lingen, † May 10, 1872 born in Leiden ). As a younger son of a many-headed middle-class family, he initially trained as a pharmacist. However, this perspective is not suited him. He attended the grammar school in 1853 in Enkhuizen, where he earned a university entrance qualification. On September 14, 1854, he enrolled at the Leiden University to complete a degree in theology. But as he saw no way to get a parish, he moved to a literature study. His formative teachers were Reinhart Dozy, Carel Gabriel Cobet, Theodoor Willem Johannes Juynboll and Matthias de Vries.

After he had passed several exams, he received his doctorate there on 12 October 1860 a treatise on the geography of North Africa, entitled Specimen Literarium inaugurale exhibens Descriptionem al - Magribi sumtam ex libro regionum al - Jaqubii versione et annotatione illustratam a doctor of philosophical sciences. In 1859 he was Adjuter the legacy Warneriani at the Leiden University Library and made a catalog of the oriental manuscripts at present there. In 1862 he graduated from an educational trip to Oxford, where he studied the existing Arab writings and there made ​​the acquaintance of Friedrich Max Muller and William Wright. After returning home, he was on June 6, 1866 as an associate professor of Syriac, Chaldean and Arabic appointed to the University of Leiden. He accepted this task on October 6, 1866, the inaugural De belangrijkheid vd beoefening the Arab Taal -en Head of customer.

On 5 July 1869 he became a full professor, the mentioned field of study and taught from 1877 only Arabic. In his role as the Leiden university teacher, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was 1881/82 Rector of the Alma Mater. This task he laid down with the speech Het Vaderland the Semietische Volken. He was district - council, 1879 Member of the Council in Leiden and was involved in the Ethnographic Museum in Leiden. The standard work is considered his work on a historical grouping of the Ismailis: the Qarmatians of Bahrain ( 1886). His significant merit is that he introduced the modern textual criticism in the Arabic, has made many contributions to the lexicography of Arabic and examined the relationships of the Orient to Europe. On 11 August 1906 he became Professor Emeritus from his professorship and adopted on September 17, 1906 in retirement. Reasons of age, he died and his body was buried on 21 May 1909 the family grave at the cemetery in Groenesteeg in Leiden.

Goeje was a member of several national and international learned societies of his time. In 1863 he became a member of the Society for Dutch literature in Leiden, in the same year a member of the Zeeland Society of Sciences in Vlissingen, on May 3, 1869, he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, 1872 and 1888 corresponding foreign member of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen. From 1878 he was an honorary member of the American Oriental Society in Hartford, in 1881 a member of the provincial Utrechtschen Society of Arts and Sciences, in 1882 foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Honorary Member of the German Oriental Society, 1885 Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London, 1886 corresponding, and in 1900 a foreign member of the Institut de France, corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, 1890 Member of the Dutch society of Sciences at Haarlem, 1894 Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen, Corresponding Member of the Royal Batavian society of Arts and Sciences in Jakarta in 1904 corresponding member of the British Academy and Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1905 corresponding member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Societe asiatique in Paris.

In addition, many awards he were to part with his work. In 1882 he became a Knight of the Order of Medjidie of Turkey, 1889 Commander of the North Star Order of Sweden, 1889 Knight of the Order of Medjidie in Egypt, 1891 Knight, and in 1906 Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 1895 he became a Knight of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, 1896 officer of the Legion of Honour and in 1906 de l' Instruction publique officer. In 1896 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

Family

Goeje married on June 27, 1867 in Leiden with Wilhelmina Henriette Leembruggen ( born December 21, 1841 in Leiden, † June 22, 1900 in Leiden ), the daughter of the Leiden city council Adrianus Cornelis Leembruggen ( born March 9, 1815 in Leiden, † August 17, 1877 ibid ) and his wife Maria Carolina Pluijgers ( born June 17, 1815 in Leiden, † September 28, 1860 ibid, married. April 23, 1836 ibid ). The marriage produced five children come. Of the children are known:

  • Willem de Goeje George I. (1868-1868)
  • Willem de Goeje George II (1869-1869)
  • Jan Willem de Goeje ( born January 4, 1871 in Leiden, † 1946 ) m. I. Margaret Visser, II Jacoba Pieternella Grüschke
  • Margaretha Wilhelmina Agatha ( Agaath ) de Goeje ( 1873-1936 ) m. with G. J. Woltman in Heerenveen
  • Claudius Henricus de Goeje ( born May 4, 1879 in Leiden, † June 8, 1955 in The Hague ), he became a professor of language and ethnology of Surinam and Curacao at Leiden University, married. J. C. van Exter

Works (selection)

Goeje had written various articles in the journals de Gids, the Journal of the German Oriental Society and the Journal of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences. Goeje was also the editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam ( vols. i.- iii. ) And wrote for the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. As far as known, his works are listed here:

  • Specimen suffered. inaug. exhibens descriptionem al - Magribi sumtam ex libro regionum al - Jaqubii versione et annotatione illustratum. Leiden1860
  • Fragmenta historicorum Arabi Corum. 1869-1871
  • Diwan of Moslim ibn al - Walid. 1875
  • Bibliotheca geographorum Arabi Corum. 1870-1894, 8 vols
  • Mémoire sur les Carmathes you Bahrain et les Fatimides, 1886 (2nd edition )
  • Annals of Tabari. 1879-1901, 15 vols
  • Beladzori, Boek of Veroveringen.
  • Idrisi Description de l' Afrique et de l' Espagne. 1866 ( with Dozy issued)
  • Ibn Koteiba Boek 's the poet.
  • Memories d' histoire et géogr. orient
  • Edition of Ibn Qutaiba 's biographies. 1904
  • Edition of the travels of Ibn Jubayr 1907
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