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unusual facts about Oriental languages



Ernest Trumpp

Later, Robert Needham recommended Ernest Trumpp, who was Regius Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Munich and member of Royal Bavarian Academny of Sciences, to do the job of translation.

He returned to Württemberg in 1871, and from 1874 worked as an professor of Oriental languages in Munich.

Hans Svane

At Copenhagen Svane devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, and between 1628 and 1635 completed his education abroad, at Franeker in Friesland, Wittenberg, Oxford and Paris.

Johann Matthäus Hassencamp

Later, he became a professor of Oriental languages and mathematics at the University in Rinteln, where in 1777 he was given additional responsibilities as head of the university library.

Joseph Halévy

While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later in Bucharest, he devoted his leisure to the study of Oriental languages and archeology, in which he became proficient.

Joseph MacRory

MacRory taught Scripture and Modern Theology at St Mary's College, Oscott in England until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of Scripture and Oriental Languages at his alma mater of Maynooth College.


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Aloys Sprenger

Sprenger took a position as professor of oriental languages at the University of Bern in 1857, moving in 1881 to Heidelberg.

Andrew Davidson

Andrew B. Davidson (1831–1902), Scottish professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages

Ataol Behramoğlu

In 1984, he began in Paris to participate in the work of Sorbonne’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, at the Center for Comparative Poetry.

Benito Arias Montano

León de Castro, professor of Oriental languages at Salamanca, to whose translation of the Vulgate Arias had opposed the original Hebrew text, denounced Arias to the Roman, and later to the Spanish Inquisition for having altered the Biblical text, making too liberal use of the rabbinical writings, in disregard of the decree of the Council of Trent concerning the authenticity of the Vulgate, and confirming the Jews in their beliefs by his Chaldaic paraphrases.

Bernard Coulie

Bernard Coulie (born 1959) is a Belgian academic specializing in Greek patristic literature primarily of Late Antiquity and its derivatives (hence an expertise in translation techniques) and counterparts in eastern Christian oriental languages of that period (notably Armenian, Syriac and Georgian).

Celestyn Myślenta

During an educational journey he also visited the universities of Jena, Tübingen, Leiden, and Basel, where he broadened his knowledge of oriental languages under Johannes Buxtorf and Thomas van Erpe.

Codex Sangermanensis I

In 1865, Johann Gildemeister (1812-1890), later Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn, personally discovered that dormibunt was the last word of one leaf of the Codex Sangermanensis and primus (with a small P) the beginning word on the next leaf - but that one leaf which had once been between them had been cut out of the Codex.

Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg

He began his classical course at Kempten, where he pursued the studies prescribed by the curriculum, and mastered several Oriental languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Persian, and Ethiopic).

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Finding himself without the means to complete his theological studies under Johann August Wilhelm Neander and Friedrich August Tholuck in Berlin, he accepted a post at Basel as tutor in Oriental languages to Johann Jakob Stähelin ( 1797–1875 ), later a professor at the university.

Faculty of International Relations, Belarusian State University

In late 2003, at the Department of Oriental Languages Department was opened National Center for Chinese Studies, "Character" (from 2006 Confucius Institute).

François Nau

François Nau (May 13, 1864 at Thil – September 2, 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages.

Georg Bühler

Before this could be settled, he also received (again via Prof. Müller) an offer of Professor of Oriental Languages at the Elphinstone College, Bombay (now Mumbai).

George Hadow

George Hadow (4 July 1712 – 11 September 1780) was professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, Scotland from 1748 to 1780.

Graves Haughton

He become proficient in Hindustani and entered Fort William College in Calcutta to further his knowledge of oriental languages, winning several prizes.

Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen

In 1701 he was appointed ordinary professor of Oriental languages and ecclesiastical history at the Protestant gymnasium of Hanau, and in 1703 became professor of theology in that institution (Bashuysen's father was preacher in the Dutch Reformed Church of the city).

Hermann von der Hardt

He studied oriental languages at the universities of Jena and Leipzig, and in 1690 he was called to the chair of oriental languages at Helmstedt.

Jacob Alting

He was professor at the University of Groningen: in 1643 in oriental languages and in 1667 in theology.

Joseph Franz von Allioli

From 1818 to 1820, he studied Oriental languages at Vienna, Rome, and Paris.

Julie Dreyfus

She started learning Japanese in 1985 at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Paris, after studying interior design and becoming interested in Japanese architecture.

Konrad Martin

He studied theology and Oriental languages for two years at Munich under Ignaz von Döllinger and Joseph Franz von Allioli, then went to Halle where the famous Gesenius taught, and thence to Würzburg, where he passed the examen rigorosum for the degree of Doctor Theologiæ.

Marquard Herrgott

In 1721 he went to the Abbey of St. Gall to study Oriental languages, but was soon recalled in order to accompany his abbot to Vienna, where he devoted himself for a few months to the study of history.

Olivier Weber

Olivier Weber, born in 1958 in Montluçon, studied economics and anthropology at the University of San Francisco, University of Paris Sorbonne, University of Nice (Ph.D.) and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO).

Otto Eissfeldt

Born in Northeim in Germany, Eissfeldt studied Protestant theology and Oriental languages from 1905 to 1912 at the University of Göttingen and Berlin's Humboldt University.

Roman Sebastian Zängerle

From 1794–95 he studied Oriental languages at the monastery of Zwiefalten, and then taught scripture at Wiblingen 1796–99, at Mehrerau 1799-1801, again at Wiblingen 1801–03, at the Benedictine University of Salzburg 1803–07, at the University of Cracow 1807–09, at the University of Prague 1811–13, and at the University of Vienna 1813–24.

Scioptric ball

Daniel Schwenter (1585-1636), professor of mathematics and oriental languages, developed the scioptic ball in 1636.

Sidney Willard

Willard was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard College.