Peter van Bohlen

Peter von Bohlen (9 March 1796 – 6 February 1840) was a German Orientalist and Indologist. He was a professor at the University of Königsberg. Quotes Peter von Bohlen claimed in 1835, the historian of the Orient must treat all people equally: ‘... he must learn to regard the wonders, which belong to the very spirit of the ancient legends, as an inviolable national inheritance, neither setting them aside by forced interpretations, nor proscribing them as the offspring of pure imagination or intentional deception, but simply endeavoring to discover the original nucleus of fact... .”” Moreover, he continued, the historical critic must strive, “unbiased by preconceived opinion, fully to understand and fairly to estimate the individual character of every people, according to their own standard of perfection, their peculiar turn of thought and their mode of action... .” Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009) External links Category:1796 births Category:1840 deaths Category:Orientalists Category:University of Bonn alumni Category:Indologists Category:Academics from Germany Category:Non-fiction authors