Martin Hartmann
Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918, Berlin) was a German orientalist, who specialized in Islamic studies.
In 1875 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig as a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. From 1876 to 1887 he served as a dragoman at the German General Consulate in Beirut. From 1887 until his death in 1918 he taught classes at the Department of Oriental Languages in Berlin.[1]
As a professor in Berlin he strove hard for the recognition of Islamic studies as an independent discipline. His numerous contributions to the field of Islamic studies were based on a sociological standpoint. Many of these works were published in the journal "Die Welt des Islams" (The World of Islam), a publication of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Islamkunde", an organization that Hartmann was a co-founder of in 1912.[2][1]
Selected works
- Metrum und Rhythmus : die Entstehung der arabischen Vermasse, 1896.
- Lieder der libyschen Wüste, 1899.
- "The Arabic press of Egypt", published in English in 1899.
- Der islamische Orient; Berichte und Forschungen (3 volumes, 1905–10).
- Chinesisch-Turkestan; geschichte, verwaltung, geistesleben, und wirtschaft, 1907.
- Der Islam : geschichte--glaube--recht : ein handbuch, 1909.
- Islam, Mission, Politik, 1911.
- Zur Geschichte des Islam in China, 1921.[3]
References
- 1 2 Hartmann, Martin in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 745 f.
- ↑ German Orientalism: The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945 by Ursula Wokoeck
- ↑ Most widely held works about Martin Hartmann WorldCat Identities