Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten
Kosegarten
Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (10 September 1792, in
ecclesiastic Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818).[1]
He studied
Oriental languages in Paris. In 1815 he became an adjunct to the theological and philosophical faculty in Greifswald. From 1817 to 1824 he was a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Jena
, and afterwards a professor at Greifswald.
Kosegarten is remembered for translation and edition of Arabic, Persian and
hieroglyphics
.
In 1856–57 Kosegarten was author of a two-volume work on the history of the University of Greifswald called Geschichte der Universität Greifswald. His handwritten notes and collection of German and Oriental works were bequeathed to the University of Greifswald.
Books
- Kosegarten, J. G. L. (1828). Chrestomathia Arabica ex codicibus manuscriptis Parisiensibus, Gothanis et Berolinensibus collecta atque tum adscriptis vocalibus (in Latin). Lipsiae: Sumtu F. C. G. Vogelii. (pp. 115 -123: Al-Maqrizi, History of the Fatimites)
References
- This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, whose references are listed as:
- ADB: Kosegarten, Gottfried @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling: KOSEGARTEN, Johann Gottfried Ludwig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Band 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7, Sp. 535–537.
- ISBN 1419173952.
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