Enno Littmann
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Ludwig Richard Enno Littmann (16 September 1875, Oldenburg – 4 May 1958, Tübingen) was a German orientalist.
In 1906 he succeeded Theodor Nöldeke as chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. Later on, he served as a professor of Oriental languages at the Universities of Göttingen (1914–16), Bonn (1918–21) and Tübingen (1921–49).
He deciphered and annotated
He published a translation of One Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into German, "Erzählungen aus den Tausendundein Nächten" (6 volumes, 1921–28, 3 1954).[1]
Works
- 1897: "Die Pronomina in Tigré", in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 12, pp. 188–230, 291–316.
- 1898: "Das Verbum der Tigre-Sprache", in: Zeitschrift für Assyrologie 13, pp. 133–178; 14, pp. 1–102.
- 1902: (ed.) Debtera Zaneb, The chronicle of King Theodore of Abyssinia. Princeton University Library.
- 1904: Philosophi abessini. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 18–19; Scriptores Aetiopici, 1–2)
- 1904: Semitic Inscriptions. New York: The Century Co. (online version at the Internet Archive)
- 1905: Modern Arabic tales. – Vol. 1: Arabic Text. Leyden: Brill. (online version at the Internet Archive)
- 1910–15: Publications of the Princeton expedition to Abyssinia, 4 vols. Leyden: E. J. Brill.
- 1935: Abessinien. Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt.
- 1962: (with: Höfner, M.) Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache: Tigrē-Deutsch-Englisch. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.
References
- ^ a b Littmann, Enno @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie
Sources
- Biesterfeldt, H. H. (1986). "Enno Littmann: Leben und Arbeit. Ein autobiographisches Fragment (1875–1904)", in: Oriens 29, pp. 1–101.
- Ullendorff, E. (1958). Obituary of Enno Littmann, in: Africa 28, p. 364.
- Ullendorff, E. (24 May 1958). Obituary of Enno Littmann, in: The Times.
External links
- For more & detailed info cp. the German version of the Wikipedia entry re Enno Littmann!
- Axel Knauf (1993). "Littmann, Enno". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 5. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 134–136. ISBN 3-88309-043-3.
- Enno Littmann's Biography by Eike Haberland, in Lissan Magazine (online magazine for Ethiopian art, culture & lifestyle).