Karl Vollers (March 19, 1857 - January, 5, 1909), German Orientalist. Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures languages peoples history and archaeology in recent
After studying Protestant theology and Oriental languages his first position was teacher at a local gymnasium (high-school) in Saxony. Then he got an appointment as director of the Khedival Library in Cairo, a position held by several German Orientalists before World War I. The Egyptian National Library and Archives (Dar el-Kotob in Cairo is the largest Library in Egypt. Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All He earned his reputation as dialectologist by writing one of the first studies on Egyptian contemporary language. He hold this position for almost ten years.
He was professor for Oriental languages at the Faculty of Philosophy at Jena University from 1896 to 1909. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was renamed for the German writer Friedrich Schiller In this function he served as well as director of the "Grandducal Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena. Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena ( Orientalisches Münzkabinett Jena) is a collection of oriental coins at Jena University, in Jena, Germany, founded "
References
- Anonymous: "Karl Vollers +", in: Herbert Koch (ed. ): Altes und Neues aus der Heimat. Volks-Beiträge zum „Jenaer Volksblatt“ (1909-1920), Neudruck der 1. und 2. Folge, Jena 1939.
- Carl Heinrich Becker: "Karl Vollers", in: Der Islam 12 (1922), pp. Carl Heinrich Becker ( April 12, 1876 &ndash February 10 1933) was a German scholar on Islam, with many articles in the 214-222.
- Stefan Heidemann: "Orientalistik und orientalische Numismatik in Jena", in: Stefan Heidemann (ed. Stefan Heidemann (born 1961 is a German Orientalist at the University of Jena Biography Islamic studies and economics in Regensburg ): Islamische Numismatik in Deutschland - eine Bestandsaufnahme (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 2), Wiesbaden2000, pp. 87-106.
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