KRAHMER, Friedrich August Wilhelm. Schiedungen, Nordhausen, Thüringen 22.11.1809 — Ibid. 4.5.1895. German Oriental Scholar and Theologian. Son of Johann Friedrich Christian Krahmer (1774–1859) and Dorothea Eleanor Linseln. Ph.D. 1833 Göttingen, diss. on Joel. In 1833-40 PD of Oriental Languages, incl. Sanskrit, at Marburg (Rabault-Feuerham 2008). In 1840 emigrated to Russia. The Vorrede of his 1862 book is signed in Moscow and on title page he is “Dr.phil, Licent.theol.”. Married, children.
Publications: Mainly wrote about Hebrew Old Testament.
– Die urheimath der Russen in Europa und die wirkliche localität und bedeutung der vorfälle in der Thidreksaga. Ein Gatulationsschreiben zu dem tausendjährigen Bestehen des russischen Staates. 144 p. Moscow 1862.
Sources: ancestry.com (if he is the right one!); briefly in O. Kaiser (ed.), Dokumente einer gescheiterten Freundschaft. Briefe von Heinrich Ewald an... 2007, 220, accessed in rep.adw-goe.de (birth year given as 1809, which seems to confirm that he is the one meant in ancestry.com). Now (2026) this is also confirmed in Marburg Professoremkatalog
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