Alois Sprenger ( him. Aloys Sprenger ; November 3, 1813 , Nassereith , Tirol - December 19, 1893 , Heidelberg ) - Austrian orientalist and doctor .
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Biography
He studied medicine and oriental languages in Vienna . In 1840, he worked in Leiden with ancient Arabic manuscripts, after which he defended his thesis on the history of Arabic medicine in the same place. In 1843 - 1854 years is in the service of the British East India Company in India .
In 1856 - 1881 he taught Oriental languages at the University of Bern , in 1881 he moved to Heidelberg . The main work of Shprenger was the biography of Muhammad , in which the author, from the standpoint of contemporary positivistic philosophy of history, attached the leading importance in the processes of creation and evolution of Islam, not to the personality of Muhammad, but to "the spirit and circumstances of the time". He paid much attention to the influence of Muslim culture on the culture of the European Middle Ages. The works of Sprenger, as well as the works of Eastern authors published by him together with Indian scientists, were distinguished by an abundance of new material [5] .
Works
- Das Leben und die Lehre des Mohammad ..., Bd.1-3, Berlin 1861-65
- Die Post- und Reisetouren des Orients, Leipzig 1864
- Die alte Geographie Arabiens, Bern 1875
- Muhammad und der Koran, Heidelberg 1889
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119278294 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Sprenger Alois // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Gusterin P. V. The Koran as an object of study. - Saarbrucken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. - 2014. - p. 45, 64. - ISBN 978-3-659-51259-9 .
Literature
- Sprenger, Alois // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Batunsky M.A. , “From the history of the birth of Western European bourgeois Oriental Studies”, in the collection “Scientific Works and Reports of the Academy of Sciences of Uzb. SSR ", 1961, book 3
- Fück J. Die arabischen Studien in Europe. - Leipzig, 1955. - S. 176, 198, 218, 255, 271.