Leo Reinisch
{{More citations needed|date=June 2024}}{{Short description|Austrian linguistic, Egyptologist and Africanist (1832–1919)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Simon Leo Reinisch
| image = LSR 1874.jpg
| caption = Reinisch in 1874
| birth_date = October 26, 1832
| birth_place = Osterwitz, Austria
| death_date = {{dda|1919|12|24|1832|10|26}}
| death_place = Maria Lankowitz, Austria
| occupation = {{hlist|linguist|Egyptologist|Africanist|professor}}
| known_for = Considered the founder of Egyptology and African Studies in Austria
}}
Simon Leo Reinisch or just Leo Reinisch (26 October 1832 in Osterwitz – 24 December 1919 in Maria Lankowitz) was an Austrian linguist, Egyptologist, Africanist and professor at the University of Vienna.[https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/personen/simon-leo-reinisch Leo Reinisch's biography (University of Vienna)]{{Cite book |last= Rüegg |first=Walter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEn8EAAAQBAJ |title=A History of the University in Europe: Volume 3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800-1945) |year= 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=446 |isbn=9780511227028}}
Biography
In 1854 Reinisch began studying history, philology, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic and Coptic at the University of Vienna. In 1873, the same university granted him a full professorship in Egyptian antiquity (Ägyptische Altertumskunde), the first chair for Egyptology in Austria. He also worked as the personal secretary to the Kaiser in Mexico.
Legacy
16 years after Reinisch's death, the Reinischgasse street in Vienna-Döbling was named after him.
Publications
Reinisch has published collections of texts, grammars and dictionaries on over 20 different languages. These are some of his most important works:
- Die ägyptischen Denkmäler in Miramar, 1865. (co-written with E. Robert Roesler)
- Die zweisprachige Inschrift von Tanis, 1866. (co-written with E. Robert Roesler)
- Der einheitliche Ursprung der Sprachen in der Alten Welt, 1873.
- Ägyptische Chrestomathie, 2 volumes, 1873/75.
- Die Barea-Sprache, 1874.
- Die Sprachen von Nordost-Afrika, 3 volumes, 1874–1879.
- Die Sprache der Irob-Saho in Abessinien, 1878.
- Die Nuba-Sprache, 2 volumes, 1879.
- Die Afar-Sprache, 3 volumes, 1886–1887.
- Die Bilin-Sprache, 2 volumes, 1887.
- Die Kafa-Sprache in Nordost-Afrika, 2 volumes, 1888.
- Das Zahlwort vier und neun in den Chamitisch-Semitischen Sprachen, 1890.
- Die Saho-Sprache, 2 volumes, 1890.
- Die Bedauye-Sprache in Nordost-Afrika, 3 volumes, 1893–1895..
- Die Somali-Sprache, 2 volumes, 1900/02.
- Das persönliche Fürwort und die Verbalflexion in den Chamito-Semitischen Sprachen, 1909.
- Die sprachliche Stellung des Nuba, 1911.
Gallery
LSR mit 1. Frau Luise, 1887.jpg|Reinisch with his first wife Luise, 1887
LSR mit Diener Jusuf (ehemaliger Slave).jpg|Reinisch with his servant Jusuf
LSR (re) mit Robert Roesler (li) Kairo 15. 1. 1866.jpg|Reinisch (on the right) with Robert Roesler
Leo Simon Reinisch mit Hund.jpg|Reinisch with a dog
Leo Reinisch Handschriftliche Studien zu Hieroglyphen.jpg|Reinisch's Handwritten studies on hieroglyphs
Leo Reinisch Handschriftliche Studien zu Hieroglyphen in einem ägyptischen Königsgrab 1.jpg|Reinisch's handwritten studies on hieroglyphs in an Egyptian royal tomb 1
Leo Reinisch Handschriftliche Studien zu Hieroglyphen in einem ägyptischen Königsgrab 2.jpg|Reinisch's handwritten studies on hieroglyphs in an Egyptian royal tomb 2
LSR Grabtafel Maria Lankowitz.JPG|Reinisch's gravestone on the church wall of Maria Lankowitz
Leo Simon Reinisch Ehrenmedaille Vorderseite.JPG|Reinisch's Medal of Honor for his 70th birthday (from the Academy of Sciences (front)
Leo Reinisch 1878.jpg|Reinisch in 1878