Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq aluminum `Ibadi (* 808 in aluminium-Hirah (with Bagdad); "† 873 in Bagdad) was an Christian-Arab scholar and translator. Its latinisierter name reads Johannitius.

Life

After its medicine study in Bagdad, where he was pupil of Yuhanna ibn Masawayh (likewise a Nestoriani Christian), it undertook a study trip to Alexandria, Egypt, where it learned Greek. In Basra it studied the Arabic language. As a Nestoriani Christian it knew the Syrian language.

After its return to Bagdad he worked in the house of the wisdom. To whose order traveled it with colleagues to Syria, Palestine and Egypt, in order to acquire there antique manuscripts of the Greek sciences. In the translator school and/or in the house of the wisdom in Bagdad translated he and its student the usually Syrian versions of the classical Greek texts into the Arabic language. Thus these works in the Arab world became admit. Its translations are characterised by their high quality. In particular its translations of Galenus works are to be emphasized, whose Greek original manuscripts were lost. Later it was appointed on the posts of the Chefarztes at the Hofe of the Kalifen aluminium-Mutawakkil, a position, which it had up to its end of life. The Kalif, an orthodox and fanatischer Muslim, in the prison, let it intermediate close since it refused itself manufacturing a poison which was meant for the murder of an enemy of the Kalifen.

Hunayn ibn Ishaq was not also an author of approximately 100 own books, in particular to mention is the books concerning eye medicine and the Greek-Syrian dictionary without the translation work Hunayn ibn Ishaq"´s in addition, by its own books (e.g. the medical Isagogik after Galen and the eye medicine) the works of the antique sciences of future generations would have remained preserved and the knowledge at that time would not have been extended. By its created technical terms the Arabic language became only the science language. Its translation methods are recognized until today.

Its son Ishaq ibn Hunayn and the son Hubay"š Ibn aluminium-Hasan aluminium-A `SAM aluminium-Dima"šqi (+ 888) of its sister were its closest coworkers in the case of the translations, in particular for philosophy. According to the encyclopedia Kitab aluminium-Fihrist of the Ibn aluminium-Nadim (+ 998) translated Hunayn Platons Politeia and Nomoi, as well as its son the Sophistes. With its team Hunayn is to have translated also works of Hippokrates and mathematical works of Euklid and Archimedes, works of the logic of Aristoteles and Platons Timaios.

See also:

• Gabriel ibn Bukhtishu (+ 828), the medical profession and promoters of translations of Greek scientific works.

Works

• Hunayn ibn aluminum `Ibadi, Isagoge Joannitii in tegni Galieni primus more liber medicine, Leipzig: W. 1497.
• Hunain ibn Ishaq: Isagoge sive introductio Johannitii in artem parvam Galeni de medicina speculativa, Argentorati 1534.
• Karl MERKLE, the custom sayings of the philosophers "“Kitab adab of Honein Ibn Ishaq (Leipzig, 1921).
• Gotthelf BERGSTRAESSER, over the Syrian and Arab Galen translations, coll. "“Papers for the customer of the morning country"” 17.2 (Leipzig 1925).
• Ten papers over the eye. S. Max one MEYERHOF, The Book OF the Ten Treatises on the Eye Ascribed ton of Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809-877 A.D.). The Earliest existing Systematic Textbook on Ophthalmology, trans. and OD., Cairo: Government press, 1928.
• Questions over the eye
• The book of the colors
• Greek-Syrian dictionary
• Kitab idrak haqiqat aluminium-diyana. OD. and French translation of Louis in: Carl Bezold (Hg.): Eastern studies Theodor to the siebzigsten birthday. First volumes. Pour 1906. New edition: Samir Khalil SAMIR, Maqalat Hunayn Ibn Ishaq fi "“kayfiyyat idrak haqiqat aluminium diyana"”, in: Aluminium-Ma"šriq 71 (1997), 345-363 (acre) and 565-566 (frz. Abstract)

Literature

• Gotthelf BERGSTRAESSER, Hunain ibn Ishaq and its school. Speak and literature-historical investigations to the Arab Hippokrates and , suffering 1913.
• G. GABRIELE, "“Hunayn"”, in: Isis 4 (1924), 282-292.
• Max one MEYERHOF, "“new Light on Hunain Ibn Ishaq and his Period"”, in: Isis 8 (1926), 685-724.
• God hard of STROHMAIER, "“Hunain ibn Ishaq and the pictures"”, in: Klio 1965, 525-536.
• God hard of STROHMAIER, "“Hunain ibn Ishaq"”, in: Encyclopedia OF Islam (suffer: Brill), 2d OD. 3 (1967), 578-581.
• Manfred ULLMANN, the medicine in the Islam, manual of the Orientalistik, department of I, supplement vi, section 1 (suffer: E.J. Brill, 1970), pp. 115-118.
• Fuat SEZGIN, history of the Arab bibliography, volume 3: Medicine pharmacy Zoologie Tierheilkunde to approx. 430 H. (suffer: E.J. Brill, 1970), pp. 247-256.
• Samir Khalil SAMIR, (813-833 : 11/3 (1972) 193-198.
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq. Collection of d'articles   l'occasion you centenaire de SA mort, Arabica 21 (1975), 229-330.
• Hans DAIBER, a manual of the aristotelischen meteorology in the version of the Hunain ibn Ishaq, Amsterdam 1975.
• Peter KAWERAU, Christian-Arab Chrestomathie from historical writers of the Middle Ages, coll. "“Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium"” 385, Louvain 1977, 54-64.
• Samir Khalil SAMIR, SJ et Paul NWYIA, sj,

• F. desert field: Arab physicians (15-16, 1840).
• L. Leclere: Medecine arabe (volume. 1, 99-102, 1876)

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• http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hunayn.html

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