Biography of herman holle
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Chapter 1 Chris, Christiaan, Snouck, Snouck Hurgronje, ʿAbd al-Ghaffar, the Master. Images of a Scholar in Action
“Man la shaykha lahu, fa-l-shaytan shaykhuhu.”
Popular Islamic tradition, quoted by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje1
“Man virgilt einem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, quoted by Georges-Henri Bousquet and Joseph Schacht in their foreword to Selected Works of C. Snouck Hurgronje (1957)
“The East is a career.”
Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred, quoted by Edward Said as a motto in Orientalism (1978)
1 A Life as an Orientalist2
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of the first decades of the twentieth century.3 He made his début in the world of international scholarship as a young doctor at the sixth International Orientalists’ Congress in Leiden in 1883. In the years to follow he became a fast-rising star, already acting as a secretary to the section on “Semitics A” at the next meeting of the Congress in Vienna in 1886. When the Congress returned to Leiden in 1931 for its eighteenth meeting, he was its president, and the absolute master of the event. In 1883 the young Snouck had just met, and befriended, his first Arab
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Karl Hermann Frank
Reichsminister for Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer
Karl Hermann Frank (24 January 1898 – 22 May 1946) was a Sudeten GermanNazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia prior to and during World War II. Attaining the rank of Obergruppenführer, he was in command of the Nazi police apparatus in the protectorate, including the Gestapo, the SD, and the Kripo. After the war, he was tried, convicted and executed by hanging for his role in organizing the massacres of the people of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky.
Early life
[edit]Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia, in Austria-Hungary (present-day Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic), Frank was taught by his father (a proponent of Georg Ritter von Schönerer's policies) about nationalist agitation. Frank attempted to enlist in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, but he was rejected due to blindness in his right eye. He spent a year at the law school of the German language Charles University in Prague and worked as a tutor to make money.
An advocate of the incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany, Frank joined the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP) by 1923 and was involved in setting up several DNSAP chapters in northern Bohemia and Silesia. In 1925, Frank opened a bo