عنوان

Im Halbschatten: Der Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971)

Number

2216350

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Im Halbschatten: Der Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971)

First Statement of Responsibility

Josef Van Ess

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Wiesbaden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harrassowitz Verlag

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 257 p.

Text of Note

E.Book: 25168

Text of Note

In the early twenties the 'Orientalist' Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971), younger brother of the famous historian Gerhard Ritter, worked as a teacher at the newly founded University of Hamburg. After the war, from 1949 to 1956, he resumed his teaching at the University of Frankfurt. A follower of Carl Heinrich Becker, Ritter remained closely connected to Becker's circle throughout his life. Yet it was in Kemalist Turkey that Ritter achieved academic maturity, observing political and intellectual developments in Germany during the period after 1933 from a distance. His connections to the changing world of Ottoman scholarship and to the German immigrants who came after 1933 and who Ataturk expected to reform Turkish universities (above all in Istanbul and Ankara), gave Ritter's work a level of understanding and breadth that has hardly ever been matched in German 'Orientalist' scholarhship. In his last years, he radically changed his field of research when he discovered a community of Aramaic-speaking Christians in Beirut who had come from Tur Abdin and had continued to cultivate their new-Syrian language in their Lebanese exile. Ritter turned away from Islamic studies and instead set out to analyze the grammar of the newly discovered idiom. "Im Halbschatten" (in the half shade) portrays Ritter's life and work in terms of an intellectual

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.

Variant Title

Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971)

Ritter, Hellmut, 1892-1971.

Asianists--Germany--Biography.

Oriental philology--Study and teaching.

Asia--Study and teaching--Germany--History--20th century.

Ess, Josef van, author.