Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918, Berlin) 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.[1]
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" (The World of Islam), a publication of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Islamkunde", an organization that Hartmann was a co-founder of in 1912.[2][1]
The Arab author Shakib Arslan strongly criticized and pushed back against Hartmann for his views on Islam and his writings on the Muslims of China.[3]
- ^ a b Hartmann, Martin in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), S. 745 f.
- ^ German Orientalism: The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945 by Ursula Wokoeck
- ^ شكيب, ارسلان (1932). حاضر العالم الاسلامي 2 (in Arabic). القاهرة: مطبعة عيسى البابي الحلبي. pp. 242–243.