Thomas Christian Tychsen

Thomas Christian Tychsen (8 May 1758, Horsbüll – 23 October 1834, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Lutheran theologian. He is known for his 1823 grammar of the Arabic language.

He studied theology and philology in Kiel and Göttingen, followed by an educational tour through Europe; France, Spain and Lombardy, completed with a lengthy stay in Vienna. In 1788, he became a full professor of theology at the University of Göttingen. He was a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and was associated with several foreign scientific societies.

Memorial plaque to Tychsen in Göttingen, Gotmarstraße 3

He was the author of a book on Arabic grammar, Grammatik der arabischen Schriftsprache (1823), and edited works of the Greek poet Quintus Smyrnaeus.^[1] Among his better known students were Orientalists Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) and Heinrich Ewald (1803-1875).

References

↑ WorldCat Identities (publications)

External links

Klaus-Gunther Wesseling (1997). "Tychsen, Ritter D. Thomas Christian". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 12. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 766–768. ISBN 3-88309-068-9.
ADB: Tychsen, Thomas Christian @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 44317024 LCCN: n2002065225 ISNI: 0000 0000 6147 6257 GND: 117439479 SUDOC: 151523525 BNF: cb120458371 (data)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, February 25, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.