Julius Euting

Julius Euting (11 July 1839 – 2 January 1913) was a German Orientalist.

Life

Director of the National and University Library of Strasbourg, he completed his first studies at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and at the local seminary . He then studied Theology and Oriental Languages in Tübingen from 1857 to 1861.

Starting in 1867, he made numerous trips to Near and Middle East, especially Syria and Arabia. He worked on the Quran and published numerous bibliographic catalogs. He also published a tourist work on Strasbourg in 1903. He feigned a conversion to Islam, and, just like his colleague Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, adopted an Arabic name, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb.

From 1876 to 1912 he was President of the Vogesenclub (in French Club Vosgien), on which he wrote a history. This association paid homage to him by dedicating the Tower overlooking the Climont to his name.

Canaanite and Aramaic epigraphy Euting made a significant contribution to the study of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, particularly those in Phoenician and Punic, becoming the most cited name in the literature of Semitic epigraphy between c. 1875 and 1920. His "Script Tables" became widely renowned among Semitic scholars, and his copy of the Siloam inscription printed at the front of the Gesenius-Kautzsch Hebrew Grammar, has become familiar to generations of scholars in the field.

Mark Lidzbarski dedicated his seminal work, the "Handbuch" to both Euting and Theodor Nöldeke.