Letters, 1858, to the Secretary of King’s College London from Gottlieb Leitner (file)

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Title:: Letters, 1858, to the Secretary of King’s College London from Gottlieb Leitner

Collection:: Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, Victorian Orientalist

Archive reference:: KA/IC/L/35

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/ka-ic-l-35

Level of description:: Item

Date of material:: 1858 Sep 1 - 1858 Dec 4

Creator:: King's College London; Secretary

Source collection title:: KA/IC - SECRETARY'S OFFICE: King's College London in-letters

Extent:: 3 sheets

Description (scope):: Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London from Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899) proposing the College form a Chair of Turkish Language due to the rising importance of the Middle East, (appointed the first Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in 1861).

Copyright:: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.; King's College London Archives

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Title:: Letter from from Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner to the Secretary of King’s College London

Archive reference:: KA/IC/L/35

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/ka-ic-l-35

Date of material:: 1858 August 31

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Constantinople August 31st 1858 Sir, Being called upon by you to give you an account of the few acquirements I may have got, tho' I find it extremely difficult to do so in my own case, I beg leave to state what studies I have unto now pursued, in compliance with your requests. Associating very seldom in boyhood with juveniles of my own age, as the position of my father Dr- Leitner either as a medical practitioner or as a missionary did not allow him always to reside among Europeans, with whose children he might have wished me to associate; having on the other hand, since earliest childhood, a strongly expressed desire for litterature [sic], I was naturally lead [sic] to take up study as a work & as a recreation. As a leading feature of my character at that time I consider to be the taste I had for the historical branch of litterature [sic]. At that time I fondly associated myself with the idea of becoming once a clergyman. The study of languages afterwards had a peculiar charm for me, I took it up & found myself having an unmisteakable [sic] talent for linguistic pursuits. My father getting aware of my inclination furnished me with good books, brought me in contact with people of different nationalities, & gave me good professors in [subscript address at bottom of page: The Revd. C Gribble, British Chaplain to Pera]

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