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Julius Heinrich Petermann
Julius Heinrich Petermann (born August 12, 1801 in Glauchau; died June 10, 1876 in Bad Nauheim) was a German Orientalist.
Biography.
In 1829, Petermann received his PhD in Berlin for a dissertation on the Targum Jonathan of the Pentateuch. Between 1830 and 1837, he was first a lecturer, then from 1837 an associate professor of Oriental philology at the University of Berlin. Between 1852 and 1855, Johann Gottfried Wetzstein, the German consul in Damascus, and the Prussian king sponsored
century, and the Gottesacker church contains interesting antiquarian relics.
People.
- Johann Pfeffinger, (1493-1573), theologian and Protest reformer
- Georg Agricola, (1494-1555), scholar and scientist,
- Samuel von Pufendorf, (1632-1694), jurist, economist and historian
- Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786-1853), professor of mineralogy, entomologist and local politician
- Julius Heinrich Petermann (1801-1876), Orientalist
- Ernst Kals (1905 -1979)