Bernhard Maier (religious scholar)

Bernhard Maier (born February 10, 1963 in Oberkirch (Baden) ) is a German religious scholar who researches and publishes in particular on the culture, religion and language of the Celts .

Life

Bernhard Maier studied Comparative Religious Studies , Comparative Linguistics , Celtic Philology and Semitic Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Aberystwyth University , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of London , whereupon he met the King and Goddess in 1989 . The Celtic conception of royalty and its oriental parallels to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on the subject of the religion of the Celts: gods, myths, worldview. From 1999 to 2004 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation .

From 2004 to 2006 Maier was a reader and professor for Celtic at the University of Aberdeen , and since 2006 he has been a professor for general religious studies and European religious history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Bernhard Maier is married and has four children.

Fonts (selection)

• King and goddess. The Celtic conception of royalty and its oriental parallels. Dissertation. University of Bonn , 1989.
• Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• The legendary book of the Welsh Celts. The four branches of the Mabinogi. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-12628-0 .
• The Celts. Your story from the beginning to the present. Beck , Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46094-1 .
• The religion of the Celts. Gods - myths - worldview. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48234-1 .
• Koran lexicon (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 348). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-34801-2 .
• The religion of the Teutons. Gods - myths - worldview. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50280-6 .
• Small lexicon of names and words of Celtic origin. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49470-6 .
• Stonehenge. Archeology, history, myth. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-50877-4 .
• Great moments of religion. From Augustine to Zarathustra. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57367-5 .
• The druids. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56266-2 .
• William Robertson Smith. His Life, his Work and his Times. Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-149995-1 .
• Dictionary Scottish Gaelic / German and German / Scottish Gaelic. Buske , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87548-557-8 .
• The wisdom of the Celts. Proverbs from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61355-5 .
• Semitic Studies in Victorian Britain. A portrait of William Wright and his world through his letters. Ergon , Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89913-855-9 .
• History and culture of the Celts. Also published as a manual of ancient studies: History and Culture of the Celts: Volume III, 10. Beck, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-406-64140-4 or ISBN 978-3-406-64142-8 . (3rd edition 2016).
• Cross-channel oriental studies in Victorian London. The life and letters of the reverend Robert Gwynne. Ergon, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89913-920-4
• The early days of oriental studies. Theodor Nöldeke's life and work as reflected in his letters. Ergon, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89913-970-9
• History of Scotland , Beck, Munich 2015 (CH Beck-Wissen, Volume 2844), ISBN 978-3-406-67617-8 .
• The Celts. History, culture and language. Francke, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4354-8
• Celtologist between the Empire and the British Empire. Kuno Meyer's letters to correspondents in Germany and Austria , 1874–1919, Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 3-95650-166-7 .
• Victorian orientalism. Identity and cultural imperialism in the nineteenth century , IB Tauris, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-78076-814-4 .
• The order of heaven. A history of religions from the Stone Age to today , CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 3-406-72012-9 .

Web links

• Bernhard Maier at the University of Tübingen
• Literature by Bernhard Maier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Bernhard Maier at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Not every druid is a Celt . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 19, 2012, p. 28.