Martin Hartmann
Martin Hartmann was a German orientalist, who specialized in Islamic studies.
In 1875, he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig as a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. From 1876 to 1887 he served as a dragoman at the German General Consulate in Beirut. From 1887 until his death in 1918 he taught classes at the Department of Oriental Languages in Berlin.
As a professor in Berlin he strove hard for the recognition of Islamic studies as an independent discipline. His numerous contributions to the field of Islamic studies were based on a sociological standpoint. Many of these works were published in the journal "Die Welt des Islams", a publication of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Islamkunde", an organization that Hartmann was a co-founder of in 1912.Selected works
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- Metrum und Rhythmus : die Entstehung der arabischen Vermasse, 1896.
- Lieder der libyschen Wüste, 1899.
- , published in English in 1899.
- Der islamische Orient; Berichte und Forschungen.
- Chinesisch-Turkestan; geschichte, verwaltung, geistesleben, und wirtschaft, 1907.
- Der Islam : geschichte--glaube--recht : ein handbuch, 1909.
- Islam, Mission, Politik, 1911.
- Zur Geschichte des Islam in China, 1921.
