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HOPKINS, Simon: The Language Studies of Ignaz Goldziher
THE LANGUAGE STUDIES OF IGNAZ GOLDZIHER mühelos von statten geht".' 7 4 Goldziher also spoke Arabic at his 70th birthday celebrations in Budapest in 1920. 17 5 Another aspect of Goldziher's contact with colloquial Arabic is worth recording here. He was a friend of one of the leading Arabic dialectologists of the period, his colourful and controversial contemporary the Swedish nobleman Le Comte Carlo de Landberg-Hallberger (1848-1924). The two men first met in Damascus in November 1873, 17 6 and Landberg was ever afterwards grateful for the private lessons he took at that time at Goldziher's feet. 1 The friendship thus begun proved lasting, and Landberg in later years would call upon the Goldziher family in Pest when en route for the orient to conduct his dialectological researches." 8 It was Landberg who spoke in honour of Goldziher at the Eighth International Congress of Orientalists in Stockholm in 1889 when King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway presented Goldziher and Nöldeke with their gold medals. Furthermore, Landberg was a faithful source of important bibliographical information; he had extensive knowledge of oriental prints, would attend to Goldziher's desiderata, 17 9 and himself possessed a magnificent library of manuscripts and books. All this was put at Goldziher's disposal, and in grateful recognition Goldziher dedicated his edition of Hutay'a (1893)'to his aristocratic Swedish friend "zum Andenken an syrische und skandinavische Tage". 18 1 In the summer of 1894 and 1895 Goldziher was the guest of Landberg at the Chäteau de Tutzing, the count's seat in Upper Bavaria. The Tagebuch (pp. 175178, 192-194), contains a lively description of the Chäteau, its patrician guests and liveried servants, its learned owner and his splendid library. This library provided Goldziher with not a few important literary discoveries.'" Goldziher so delighted in Tutzing that he was moved to compose, in German, a poem in celebration of his happy visits there. The six quatrains of this ditty, cast in catalectic rajaz, may be read in the Tagebuch (p. 194). In 1895 Landberg was installed in his stately Bavarian pile together with two Hadrami informants, Sa'Td and Mansür, whom he had brought back with him to Europe from Aden via Cairo in order to continue his dialectological studies in comfort and at leisure. 18 1 During that summer Goldziher joined the group and one 17 4 Simon, Letters 203. 17 5 De Somogyi, Muslim World 51 (1961), 15. I7 (' Oriental Diary 127. 17 7 Tagebuch by 17 8 Tagebuch 104. 17 9 Tagebuch 122, 125. 181 1 Landberg had provided a transcript of one of the MSS used for the edition; see Tagebuch 125; Der Diwän des Garwal b. Aus al-Hutej'a, Leipzig 1893, 52 = GS III 101. 18 1 The dedication is missing in the reprint from ZDMG given in GS (see above n. 108). 18 2 Tagebuch 177, 192-193, 196, 197; Abhandlungen I, vi. 121
