Karl Hermann Ethé
Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Aberystwyth (University of Wales)
About Karl Hermann Ethé
Lived 1844 – 1917 (aged 73). Karl Hermann Ethé was a German orientalist, archivist, philologist and translator.
Carl Hermann Ethé or Hermann Ethé (1844–1917) was a German orientalist best known for his catalogues of Islamic manuscripts and his studies and German translations of Persian poetry.
He occupied the Professorship of German and Oriental Languages at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth until the start of the First World War. He married British national Harriet Dora Phillips in 1899. Harriet subsequently lost her British citizenship and they both became targets of Germanophobia during this period as they were both run out of town. The University College refused to sever ties with him, but under the mounting public pressure from the general public against his employer, Ethé agreed to retire from his chair.
Among his translations was the first portion of Qazwini's cosmography, The Wonders of Creation , published 1868.
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Who was Karl Hermann Ethé?
professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Aberystwyth (University of Wales)
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Karl Hermann Ethé was born on 13 February 1844 in Stralsund, United Kingdom.
When did Karl Hermann Ethé die?
Karl Hermann Ethé died on 7 June 1917 in Bristol.
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Karl Hermann Ethé was an orientalist, archivist, philologist and translator.
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Karl Hermann Ethé was German.
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