Johann Gildemeister was a German Orientalist

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 who was a native of Kröpelin

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Biography

He studied Oriental languages and theology

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 at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn

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, graduating from the latter in 1838. After a study trip to Leiden and Paris

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, in 1839 he became a lecturer at Bonn in Sanskrit, oriental languages and literature, and Old Testament

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 exegesis, and later an associate professor of oriental languages (1844). In 1845, he went to the University of Marburg as a professor of theology and oriental literature. In 1859, he returned to Bonn as a professor.

Works

With historian

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 Heinrich von Sybel

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, he was the author of 'Der heilige Rock zu Trier und die zwanzig andern heiligen ungenähten Röcke, a controversial work that argued against the authenticity of the Holy Coat of Trier

Seamless robe of Jesus

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. Other noted publications by Gildemeister include:

• Dissertationis de rebus Indiae, quo modo in Arabum notitiam venerint pars prior una cum Hasudii loco ad. codd Parisiens fidem recensito u. edidit. Dissertation, Bonn: Baaden, 1838
• Bibliothecae Sanskritae sive recensvs librorvm sanskritorvm hvcvsque typis vel lapide exscriptorvm critici specimen, Bonn (and others): König, 1847.
• Kalidasae Meghaduta et Çringaratilaka: ex recensione J. Gildemeisteri; additum est glossarium, Bonn: König, 1841
• De Evangeliis in Arabicum e Simplici Syriaca translatis commentatio academica Ioannis Gildemeisteri, 1865
• Uber die in Bonn entdeckten neuen Fragmente des Macarius, 1867