Abraham Hinckelmann

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1652 - 1695

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Abraham Hinckelmann (1652, Döbeln – 1695, Hamburg) was an evangelical theologian and an orientalist. In October 1668 he went tot he Universty of Wittenberg, where he received his Master’s degree in April 1670 (!). In 1672 he became a rector of a school at Gardelegen and three years later at the Katharineum in Lübeck. He became a deacon at the St Nicolaikirche in 1685 and in 1687 he received his doctorate of theology at the University of Kiel. In the same years he became a Honorarprofessor (‘honorary professor’) of theology at the University of Giessen. Hinckelmann was an adherent of pietism. Hinckelmann was a famous orientalist. His Al-Coranus (Hamburg, 1694) was the first edition of the Qu’ran available to European scholars, missionaries or Islamic readers. It was followed by Ludovico Marracci's Arabic and Latin edition published at Padua in 1698, whose two folio volumes and extensive (anti-Islamic) commentary made it both expensive and inconvenient to use. The editions published at St Petersburg (from 1789) and Kazan (from 1803) for the use of Islamic groups in the Russian Empire were almost unknown in Europe, so the present edition remained the primary source for European knowledge of the Qur'an for 140 years, until Flügel's 1834 Leipzig edition.

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