Ludolf Krehl
Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried Krehl (29 June 1825 – 15 May 1909, Leipzig) was a German Orientalist born in Meissen.
Biography
From 1843 he studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig, where he attended lectures by Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer on Arabic, Persian and Turkish philology. In 1846 he continued his education at the University of Tübingen as a student of Heinrich Ewald. Later on, he embarked on study trips to Gotha, Paris and Saint Petersburg.[1]
He became secretary of the Royal Library in Dresden in 1852 and in 1861 went to the University of Leipzig as a librarian and an associate professor of Oriental languages. In 1874 he became sole head librarian and a full professor.[1] In 1876/1877 he was appointed dean to the Faculty of Philosophy at the university.[2]
Published works
Krehl edited certain Arabic texts and wrote the following works:
- Ueber die Religion der vorislamischen Araber (1863).
- Ueber die koranische Lehre von der Prädestination (1870).
- Beiträge zur Charakteristik der Lehre vom Glauben im Islam (1877).
- Das Leben und die Lehre des Muhammed, volume i (1884).
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
- ^ a b Krehl, Ludolf in New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980
- ^ biographical sketch at Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
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