KHE
Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Aberystwyth
Karl Hermann Ethé
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Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Aberystwyth
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13 February 1844(Stralsund, Vorpommern-Rügen District, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany)
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7 June 1917(Bristol, Avon, South West England, United Kingdom)
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Carl Hermann Ethé or Hermann Ethé(1844-1917) was a German orientalist best known for his catalogues of Islamic manuscripts and his studies and German translations of Persian poetry.
He occupied the Professorship of German andOriental Languages at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth at the start of the First World War. He and his wife were targeted during this period due to their nationality.
Among his translations was the first portion of Qazwini's cosmography, The Wonders of Creation (German: Kazwînis Kosmographie: Die Wunder der Schöpfung), published 1868.