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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in the study of languages. I am able at this present day to write, read, speak & compose in German Modern Greek Turkish Italian French English, write, read and compose in (Prosa) Ancient Greek[.] Write, read & understand [a Greek word, 'Metrios', meaning 'moderately'] Latin [and] Arabic. A general weakness, occasioned thro' overworking myself hindered me for two years to continue these & other studies as: history, Rethorice, [ie, Rhetoric] Natural Philos etc etc. Now that I am recruiting again strength, I desire to continue in the course I have begun & I hope that it may please the Lord to give me a call for the ministry. I hope you will excuse me for having lingered, perhaps too fondly, & detained your attention on such an uninteresting subject as myself. I know only too well in how many points I am still deficient, but I fully trust that with diligence & prompted by the desire to make myself worthy of the kindness shown unto me, I shall make up, for what I have neglected. In the same time allow me to express my acknowledgements & heartfelt gratitude for the kindness you have manifested to me unto now. I have the honor to be Sir your obedient Servant G W Leitner.

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