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 December 7

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are Englishmen to acquire the knowledge of those languages which wd render them fit for such positions? Turkish & Modern Greek is not taught, I believe, in any of the Colleges in England & the creation of a Professorship of the Turkish and Modern Greek languages in King's College would be felt to be a most timely addition to the Professorships already established in modern languages. Government will then very likely, availing herself of the opportunities offered by King's College, either create a system of patronage or of competition for official positions in Turkey or Asia Minor. In both cases it will be felt & acknowledged that King's College met a desideration. My own experience shows me that Missionary Societies would most gladly avail themselves of such an opportunity. The Church Missionary College wishing to send some of its young men to Turkey called upon me to instruct them in Turkish and I on acct of [ie, on account of] circumstances did not refuse. Would they not most gladly have sent them to King's College, if Turkish had been taught there? Of course they would, King's College occupying such a high standing among all the Universities and Colleges in England! Will you forgive me if I shall speak now of

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