Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rosen (Born Ballhorn; 24 September 1820 in

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of t ...

, Principality of Lippe – 29 October 1891 in Detmold) was a German (Lippe/Prussian) orientalist and diplomat.

Biography

He studied in

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and

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. From 1844, he was a

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at the

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

n embassy in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

. From 1853 he was the Prussian consul in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. From 1867 he was Consul General of the

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(from 1871, the German Empire) in Belgrade. In 1875, Rosen returned to Detmold, where, in May 1907, the Rosenstraße was named in his honor. Rosen was a friend of E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge, together with his wife, spent a prolonged visit to Rosen's home in 1885.Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, KT., M.A. & Litt.D. Cambridge, M.A. & D.Litt. Oxford, D.LiT. Durham, F.S.A
A NARRATIVE OF JOURNEYS IN EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM BETWEEN THE YEARS 1886 AND 1913
, journal in the library of the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

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, 1920, p.159.

Family

The Orientalist

Friedrich August Rosen Friedrich August Rosen (2 September 1805 in Hannover – 12 September 1837 in London) was a German Orientalist, brother of Georg Rosen and a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He studied in Leipzig, and from 1824 in Berlin under Fran ...

was his brother; their father, Friedrich Ballhorn-Rosen, originating from Denmark, was Chancellor of the Principality of Lippe. Georg Rosen married Serena Anna (1830−1902), a painter, and daughter of the composer

Ignaz Moscheles Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the Co ...

. By her he was father of Friedrich Rosen, also diplomat and for a short time German foreign minister, and

Jelka Rosen Hélène Sophie Emilie Rosen, known as Jelka, (30 December 186828 May 1935) was a German painter, best known as the wife of the English composer Frederick Delius. She was born in Belgrade in 1868. She was the youngest of five children born to ...

, also a painter. His namesake grandson Georg Rosen (1895–1961) was also diplomat and helped organising the

Nanking Safety Zone The Nanking Safety Zone (; '', Nankin Anzenku'', or , ''Nankin Anzenchitai'') was a demilitarized zone for Chinese civilians set up on the eve of the Japanese breakthrough in the Battle of Nanking (December 13, 1937). Following the example of Jesu ...

in 1937.

Works

* ''Rudimenta persica'' (Leipzig, 1843) * ''Über die Sprache der Lazen'' (Lemgo, 1844) * ''Ossetische Grammatik'' (Lemgo, 1846). * ''Tuti-nameh'' (Leipzig, 1858, 2 vols) * ''Das Haram zu Jerusalem und der Tempelplatz des Moria'' (Gotha, 1866) * ''Geschichte der Türkei vom Sieg der Reform 1826 bis zum Pariser Traktat 1856'' (Leipzig, 1866–67, 2 vols.) * ''Die Balkan-Haiduken'' (Leipzig, 1878) * ''Bulgarische Volksdichtungen, ins Deutsche übertragen'' (Leipzig, 1879)

References

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