Alfred von Kremer

Alfred von Kremer (13 May 1828 in Penzing, Vienna; 27 December 1889, Döbling) was an Austrian orientalist and politician.

He self-taught Modern Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and Persian and travelled (1849–51) with a scholarship from the Academy of Sciences to Syria and Egypt.

He received the vice-consulate (1858), consul in Cairo (1859), the consulate in Galaţi (1862), in Beirut (1870), and became ministerial advisor to the consular ministry in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed to Vienna (1872), where he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences (1876).

From May 1876 he lived in Cairo as a member of the Egyptian Government Debt Commission and returned to the Viennese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the spring of 1880.

Among the Arabic texts he published were: He opposed the Slavic and clerical tendencies in Austria's internal politics in the treatise Die Nationalitätsidee und der Staat (The Nationality Idea and the State) (Vienna 1885).