Ferdinand Justi (2 June 1837 in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximat ...

, Germany – 17 February 1907 in

) was a German linguist and Orientalist. He finished his studies of linguistics at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

and the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. In 1861 he lived in Marburg, where in 1865 he became associate and in 1869 full professor of comparative linguistics and

Germanic philology Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary tex ...

. In addition to his academic work, he studied with meticulous precision the life of the Hessian peasants in the last third of the 19th century, especially in the immediate and wider area of Marburg, on which he wrote his observations and described it in countless sketches and watercolors. One of his main themes included buildings, furniture, agricultural implements, and especially costumes, with all its subtleties and accessories.

Works

*''Handbuch der Zendsprache''. Leipzig 1864 *''Dictionnaire kurde-francaise''. Petersburg 1879 *''Geschichte des alten Persiens''. Berlin 1879 *''Kurdische Grammatik''. Sankt Petersburg 1880 *''Geschichte der orientalischen Völker im Altertum''. Berlin 1884 *''Iranisches Namenbuch''. Marburg 1884 *''Hessisches Trachtenbuch''. Marburg 1899 - 1905

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Justi, Ferdinand 1837 births 1907 deaths German orientalists Linguists from Germany Academic staff of the University of Marburg People from Marburg German male non-fiction writers