LEITNER, GOTTLIEB WILHELM
- LEITNER, GOTTLIEB WILHELM
- LEITNER, GOTTLIEB WILHELM (1840–1899), British educator and
Orientalist. Born Gottlieb Saphir (or Sapier) in Budapest, Leitner took
the name of his stepfather, a conversionist minister to the Jews of the
Ottoman Empire. In the late 1850s he moved to England, becoming
professor of Arabic and Mohammedan Law at King's College, London. From
1864 to 1879 he lived in India, where he was principal of Government
College, Lahore, and spent several years as a notable explorer of a
remote region in Kashmir and Afghanistan he termed "Dardistan." Leitner
was also a renowned and remarkable linguist, reputedly knowing 50
languages at his death. He returned to England in 1879, where he opened
the Oriental Institute at Woking, south of London, meant for Indian
students and also as a research center for Indian studies. There he
opened England's first mosque, and was regarded as a positive exponent
of Islam in the West. Through his fame as a linguist, Leitner had been
asked to give Queen Victoria a suitable Hindustani title when she was
made Empress of India in 1876. He chose the title
Kaisar-i-Hind, by which she was officially known in India.
Leitner's career as an explorer of Central Asia and a linguist was
remarkably like that of other British Jews of the same time, among them
ney elias and sir auriol stein . Leitner was the uncle of
the Conservative politician and Zionist leopold amery .
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ODNB online.
(William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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