Friedrich Schrader was a German philologist of oriental languages, orientalist, art historian, writer, social democrat, translator and journalist.
15 Facts About Friedrich Schrader
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Friedrich Schrader used the pseudonym Ischtiraki.
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In 1891 Schrader took a position as a lecturer for German language and literature at Robert College in Bebek, close to Constantinople, where he lived with his family on the campus.
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From 1900, Friedrich Schrader worked as a foreign correspondent for different German newspapers and journals.
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From 1907 until 1908 Friedrich Schrader worked as a lecturer at the Russian Commercial College in Baku, and undertook field studies in the Caucasus region.
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In 1917 Friedrich Schrader himself was fired from his post as deputy editor at the Osmanischer Lloyd.
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Friedrich Schrader was a fierce critic of the destruction of the multi-cultural Ottoman society and culture by competing ethnic nationalist ideologies, largely promoted by European intellectuals.
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Friedrich Schrader published the book "Konstantinopel in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" in 1917 in Tubingen, Germany.
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The work remained unfinished since Friedrich Schrader was forced to leave Constantinople after the German-Ottoman capitulation in November 1918.
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In 1919, Friedrich Schrader published a brief summary of the activities in a German journal, the whereabouts of the recorded and collected material is unknown.
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Friedrich Schrader left his ill wife and a male child in Constantinople.
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From Odessa Friedrich Schrader travelled in a railroad freight car through the war-ravaged Ukraine to Brest-Litovsk, where he reached the German front line.
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In Berlin, Friedrich Schrader tried in vain to obtain employment in academia or diplomacy.
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In several articles Friedrich Schrader voiced his criticism of the failed German Middle East policies before and during the First World War, especially in relation with the support for the Young Turkish regime and its attitude towards non-Muslim minorities.
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Friedrich Schrader died in August 1922 in Berlin, few weeks after DAZ had published his historic novel Im Banne von Byzanz.