Name

Viktor Romanovich Rosen

Original name

Виктор Романович Розен

Main activity

Orientalist

Secondary activity

Title

Baron

Name variations

Viktor von Rosen"

Education place

Saint Petersburg

Education institution

Saint Petersburg University

Activity place

Saint Petersburg

Activity institution

The Asiatic Museum, Saint Petersburg University

Activity start date

1881

Activity end date

1908

Place of birth

Tallinn

Date of birth

1849

Place of death

Saint Petersburg

Date of death

1908

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/V.%20Rozen/collection

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Viktor Romanovich (von) Rosen (1849-1908) was a Russian Orientalist of German-Baltic origin. Rosen attended a school in Reval (today Tallinn) from 1859 to 1866; afterward, he studied in St. Petersburg and a year in Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1883 having defended his thesis on the history of the Arabic language. In the years 1872 to 1883, he worked as a lecturer, and from 1883 to 1885 as a full professor at St Petersburg University. From 1885 he was President of the Oriental Section of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, from 1900 a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Rosen made a major contribution to the study of Arabic poetry, fiction and scientific literature, history, and culture of the medieval Muslim-Christian East in imperial Russia. He also introduced new methods of research and critical studies of historical sources.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina