Georg Graf

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Georg Graf (15 March 1875 – 18 September 1955) was a German Orientalist. One of the most important scholars of Christian-Arabic literature, his 5-volume Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur is the foundational text in the field.

Life

Georg Graf was born in Münsingen, Germany, in 1875. He entered the seminary of Dillingen, where he studied

Legacy

Graf's Nachlass, (collected documents) is housed in Munich. The Centre for Christian Arabic Literature and Research in Beirut CEDRAC continues his work in the field of research.

Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur

• Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur ('History of Christian Arabic Literature'); abbrev. GCAL. (5 vols., Vatican City, 1944-53). Graf's magnum opus covers all Arabic Christian literature up to the end of the 19th century and completes Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Literatur ('History of Arabic Literature') (1908-1912) for which it was conceived as a complementary work.

Five Volumes; 2,384 pages.

• Vol. 1 translations into Arabic, including the bible.
• Vol. 2 Authors (up to the mid-15th century).
• Vol. 3 Authors (mid-15th century - late-19th century); includes the
  Melkites and Maronites
  .
• Vol. 4 Authors; includes Coptic, Jacobite, Nestorian, and Armenian authors.
• Vol. 5 Index.

Graf published over 270 books, articles and essays on the Christian orient. At the time much of the literature in Arabic remained unpublished. He was a long-term contributor to the Arabic series of the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium and the journal Oriens Christianus.

He translated a number of Arabic texts into German, including the works of

Bibliography

• Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur. Città del Vaticano, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944-1953. 5 vols.
• Die christlich-arabische Literatur: bis zur fränkischen Zeit (Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts); eine literarhistorische Skizze, Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder 1905. - X, 74 S. (Strassburger theologische Studien ; 7,1)
• Catalogue de manuscrits arabes chrétiens conservés au Caire. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1934.
• Die arabischen Schriften des Theodor Abu Qurra, Bischofs von Harran (ca. 740-820 Forschungen zur christlichen Literatur- und Dogmengeschichte, Band X, Heft 3/4, Paderborn, 1910.
• Des Theodor Abu Kurra Traktat uber den Schopfer und die wahre Religion, Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters. Texte und Untersuchungen, Band XIV, Heft 1. Munster, Westphalia, 1913. Contains German translation.

Literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1990). "Georg Graf". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 2. Hamm: Bautz. col. 282.
  ISBN 3-88309-032-8
  .
• Samir Khalil Samir: Georg Graf (1875–1955), sa bibliographie et son rôle dans le renouveau des études arabes chrétiennes, in: Oriens Christianus 84 (2000) 77-100.
• Peter Tarras: "A Note on Georg Graf's Nachlass". Biblia Arabica Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
• A related title, which supplements the entries on Maronites, is Michael Breydey, Geschichte der syro-arabischen Literatur der Maroniten vom VII. bis XVI. Jahrhundert. Oplanden, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1985.

References

External links

• Georg Graf in the German National Library catalogue
• Meryle Gaston Guide to Graf's "Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur"
• CEDRAC biographical article - in French
• List of writers covered in book 2 of the Geschichte.