Julius Euting
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Born | Stuttgart, Germany | 11 July 1839
Died | 2 January 1913 Strasbourg, France | (aged 73)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Orientalist |
Institutions | University of Strasbourg |
Julius Euting (11 July 1839 – 2 January 1913) was a German Orientalist.
Life[]
Director of the National and University Library of Strasbourg, he completed his first studies at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and at the local seminary . He then studied Theology and Oriental Languages in Tübingen from 1857 to 1861.
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Starting in 1867, he made numerous trips to Near and Middle East, especially Syria and Arabia. He worked on the Quran and published numerous bibliographic catalogs. He also published a tourist work on Strasbourg in 1903.[1]
From 1876 to 1912 he was President of the Vogesenclub (in French Club Vosgien), on which he wrote a history.[2] This association paid homage to him by dedicating the Tower overlooking the Climont to his name.
Selected works[]
- Beschreibung der Stadt Strassburg und des Munsters, Strasbourg, 1881.[3]
- Tagebuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien, reprint of the 1896 and 1914 Leiden edition, edited by Enno Littmann, Leiden, 1914 [Reprints u.a. Hildesheim, 2004, ISBN 3-487-12616-8.
- Katalog der Kaiserlichen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek in Strassburg: Arabische Literatur. Strassburg 1877 (online).
- Nabatäische Inschriften aus Arabien, Berlin, 1885 (online).
- Sinaïtische Inschriften, Berlin, 1891 (online).
Notes[]
- ^ The 1903 edition was reprinted in 1994 in France under the title La guide illustré de la ville de Strasbourg et de la cathédrale , éditions du Bastion, Strasbourg, 108 pp.
- ^ Der Vogesenclub und seine Geschichte , Schmidt, Strasbourg, 1881, 18 pp. (excerpt from Mittheilungen des Vogesenclubs )
- ^ Catalogo SUDOC
Bibliography[]
- Hélène Lozachmeur et Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, "Charles Huber und Julius Euting in Arabien nach französischen, auch heute noch nicht veröffentlichten Dokumenten", Anabases, n. 12, 2010, pp. 195–200.
- C. J. Lyall, «Julius Euting», in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Cambridge), April 1913, pp. 505–510 (necrology).
- 1913 deaths
- 1839 births
- People from Stuttgart
- University of Tübingen alumni
- University of Copenhagen faculty
- German Arabists
- German orientalists
- Explorers of Asia
- Explorers of Arabia