Alfred von Kremer


Alfred von Kremer at Vienna; † December 27 1889 in Döbling was an Austrian orientalist and politician.

Life

Alfred Kremer first studied Philosophy in Vienna, then Jurisprudence. He self-taught Modern Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and Persian and travelled with a scholarship from the Academy of Sciences to Syria and Egypt.
On return he received the professorship of vernacular Arabic at the Vienna Polytechnic, a post he surrendered in May 1852 to return to Egypt as the first interpreter of the Austrian Consulate.
He received the vice-consulate, consul in Cairo, the consulate in Galaţi, in Beirut, and became ministerial advisor to the consular ministry in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed to Vienna, where he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences.
From May 1876 he lived in Cairo as a member of the Egyptian Government Debt Commission and returned to the Viennese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the spring of 1880. A few months later he was appointed Austrian Minister of Commerce, an appointment he held until mid-February 1881.

Works

Kremer's writings are mostly geographic and ethnographic in nature, especially the
In wider circles he became known especially with the publication of .
Among the Arabic texts he published were:
He opposed the Slavic and clerical tendencies in Austria's internal politics in the treatise Die Nationalitätsidee und der Staat .

Literature