Friedrich Gottlob Uhlemann (26 November 1792 in Zeitz – 19 April 1864) was a German Protestant

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and educator best known as the author of orientalist

grammatical In linguistics, grammaticality is determined by the conformity to language usage as derived by the grammar of a particular variety (linguistics), speech variety. The notion of grammaticality rose alongside the theory of generative grammar, the go ...

works. In 1815 he received his PhD from the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

, where he was a student of Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller. Following graduation he worked for several years as a private tutor to the family of Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf. From 1822 up until his death in 1864 he was a teacher at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in

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. Concurrently, he passed his habilitation for theology at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

(1823), where in 1835 he was named an associate professor of theology. In 1839 he received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Leipzig.

Selected works

* ''Elementarlehre der syrischen Sprache'' (1829) – Elementary teaching of the

Syriac language The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during ...

. * ''Institutiones linguae samaritanae ex antiquissimis monumentis erutae et digestae'', (1837). * ''Anleitung zum Uebersetzen aus dem Deutschen in das Hebräische für Gymnasien'' (1839) – Instructions for the translation from German into

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

for high schools. * ''De versionum N.T. Syriacarum critico uso'' (1850). * "Uhlemann's Syriac grammar : translated from the German by Enoch Hutchinson, with a course of exercises in Syriac grammar, and a chrestomathy and brief lexicon" (1855).HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uhlemann, Friedrich Gottlob 1792 births 1864 deaths People from Zeitz Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin 19th-century German Protestant theologians German orientalists