Georg Rosen (1821–1891)
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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 ...
,
Principality of Lippe Lippe (later Lippe-Detmold and then again Lippe) was a state in Germany, ruled by the House of Lippe. It was located between the Weser river and the southeast part of the Teutoburg Forest. It originated as a state during the Holy Roman Empire, an ...
– 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
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n embassy in
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. From 1853 he was the Prussian consul in
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. From 1867 he was Consul General of the
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(from 1871, the
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) in
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. 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 Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptology, Egyptologist, Orientalism, Orientalist, and Philology, philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient ...
. 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
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,
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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 Franz ...
was his brother; their father, Friedrich Ballhorn-Rosen, originating from Denmark, was Chancellor of the
Principality of Lippe Lippe (later Lippe-Detmold and then again Lippe) was a state in Germany, ruled by the House of Lippe. It was located between the Weser river and the southeast part of the Teutoburg Forest. It originated as a state during the Holy Roman Empire, an ...
. 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 in the Co ...
. By her he was father of Friedrich Rosen, also diplomat and for a short time German foreign minister, and Jelka Rosen, also a painter. His namesake grandson Georg Rosen (1895–1961) was also diplomat and helped organising the
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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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Meyers Konversationslexikon
German orientalists Diplomats for the Kingdom of Prussia Dragomans People from Detmold Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia 1820s births 1891 deaths 19th-century translators 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-diplomat-stub