Carl Bezold

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Carl Bezold

Carl Bezold (born May 18, 1859 in Donauwörth ; † November 21, 1922 in Heidelberg ) was a German ancient orientalist and Semiticist .

Life

The son of the royal district judge Dr. Ernst Julius Bezold († 1885) passed the Abitur examination at the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium in 1877 , among others with Heinrich Bursian (* 1858), the brother of his future wife, and then studied in Munich (among others with Conrad Bursian ), Leipzig and Strasbourg and Assyriology Semitic Linguistics. In 1880 he did his doctorate in Leipzig under Friedrich Delitzsch on the Behistun inscription . In 1883 he completed his habilitation in Munich and became a private lecturer. The subject of the habilitation was the first part of his edition of the Syrian Treasure Cave . Bezold devoted himself to Semitic studies and literary work in the British Museum in London since 1888 . Among other things, he produced a catalog of the 14,500 cuneiform scripts in the “Kouyunjik Collection” of the British Museum. There he arranged and cataloged the extensive collection of cuneiform texts from the palace library of Assurbanipal in Nineveh and the Tell el Amarna clay tablets. In 1894 he accepted the call to Heidelberg University as a full professor. He is known for his research on the Babylonian and Assyrian languages and literature. But he also dealt with Syriac , Ethiopian (his book Kebra Nagast from 1905) and Arabic .

In 1884 he founded the journal for cuneiform research with his Munich teacher Fritz Hommel , which in 1886 became the journal for Assyriology and related areas . He was the sole editor from 1886 to 1922.

Bezold was a member of the "Society of Biblical Archeology" in London as well as the Heidelberg and Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He corresponded with numerous scientists, for example in 1898 with the sociologist Max Weber or the geologist and paleontologist Wilhelm Salomon-Calvi , Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University. Among other things, he supported the Assyriologist Franz Xaver Kugler in a publication in 1911 in his criticism of the panbabylonism then current .

Bezold married Adele Bursian in 1888, daughter of his Munich teacher, the classical philologist Conrad Bursian. She worked with him on the posthumous Babylonian-Assyrian glossary. Bezold's estate is kept in the Heidelberg University Library.

Fonts

  • The large Darius inscription on the rock of Behistun. Transcription of the Babylonian text with translation and commentary. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1881 (dissertation).
  • The Achaemenid inscriptions. Transscription of the Babylonian text along with translation, text-critical comments and a dictionary of words and proper names by Carl Bezold. With the cuneiform texts of the smaller Achaemenid inscriptions, autographed by Paul Haupt. JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1882.
  • The treasure cave. Part 1, 1883.
  • About cuneiform inscriptions. Berlin 1883.
  • Brief overview of Babylonian-Assyrian literature. In addition to a chronological excursion, two registers and an index to 1700 clay tablets from the British Museum. Schulze, Leipzig 1886.
  • The treasure cave. Part 2, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1888.
  • The recent progress in cuneiform writing research (= collection of generally understandable scientific lectures. Issue 65). Publishing house and printing company A.-G., Hamburg 1889.
  • Catalog of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyundjuk Collection of the British Museum. 5 volumes, Longmans a. a., London 1889-1899.
  • The Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum. With autotype facsimiles. British Museum, London 1892.
  • Oriental Diplomacy being the transliterated text of the Cuneiform Dispatches between the Kings of Egypt and Western Asia in the XVth century before Christ, discovered at Tell el-Amarna, and now preserved in the British Museum. With full Vocabulary, Grammatical Notes, etc. Luzac, London 1893.
  • Nineveh and Babylon. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld [u. a.] 1903.
  • The Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions and their meaning for the Old Testament: an Assyriological contribution to the Babel-Bible question. Lecture given in Karlsruhe at the 39th General Meeting of the Scientific Preachers' Association of the Protestant Clergy of the Grand Duchy of Baden on July 1, 1903. Mohr, Tübingen 1904.
  • as translator: Babylonian-Assyyrian texts , Volume I: The legend of creation. A. Marcus and E. Weber, Bonn 1904.
  • Kebra Nagast. The glory of the kings according to the manuscripts in Berlin, London, Oxford and Paris published for the first time in the Ethiopian original text and provided with a German translation (= treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 1st class, volume XXIII, department 1). Publishing house of the K. Academy of Sciences in commission of G. Franz'schen Verlag (J. Roth), Munich 1905 ( digitized version ).
  • as editor: Oriental Studies. Theodor Nöldeke on his seventieth birthday (March 2, 1906). 2 volumes, Töpelmann, Giessen 1906.
  • with August Dillmann: Ethiopic grammar. Translated by James A. Crichton. Williams & Norgate, London 1907.
  • Verbal suffix forms as age criteria for Babylonian-Assyrian inscriptions. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1910.
  • Astronomy, heavenly viewing and astral teaching among the Babylonians. Lecture given at the meeting of the general academy on December 3, 1910. Winter, Heidelberg 1911.
  • Reflexes of astrological cuneiform inscriptions in Greek writers. Winter, Heidelberg 1911.
  • with August Kopff and Franz Boll : Zenith and equatorial stars in the Babylonian fixed star sky (= session reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Issue 11). Carl Winter's university bookstore, Heidelberg 1913.
  • The Babylonian Assyrian Religion. BG Teubner, Leipzig-Berlin 1913.
  • The details of the Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions. In: F. Boll: Ancient observations of colored stars (= treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, philosophical-philological and historical class. Volume 30, treatise 1). G. Franz, Munich 1916, pp. 97-147.
  • Historical cuneiform texts from Assur. Note samples from the Babylonian-Assyrian dictionary of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1915
  • with Franz Boll: A new Babylonian-Greek parallel. In: Essays on the history of culture and language. Dedicated to Ernst Kuhn on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Breslau 1916, pp. 226-235.
  • The development of Semitic philology in the German Reich: academic speech in memory of the second founder of the university, Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden, on November 22, 1916 at the presentation of the annual report and the announcement of the academic award tasks. In: Speeches and programs of the Univ. Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1917.
  • with Franz Boll: Star belief and star interpretation. The history and essence of astrology. With a star map and 20 illustrations. 1917. 2nd edition, BG Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1919.
  • with Adele Bezold: Babylonian-Assyrian glossary. Winter, Heidelberg 1926.

literature

  • Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. Bruno Bolger Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig-Gohlis 1908.
  • Adele Bezold: Directory of the writings of Carl Bezold. In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie , Volume 35, Issue 1 (1923), pp. 58-72.
  • Franz Boll: Carl Bezold. Obituary, spoken on behalf of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg at the funeral on November 23rd, 22nd (= meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, philosophical-historical class. Born 1923, 1st treatise). Carl Winters University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1923.

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Bezold  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Carl Bezold  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1876/77
  2. ^ (1908) Heidelberg-Neuenheim, Brückenstr. 45
  3. ^ Official directory of teachers, civil servants and students at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Summer semester 1887. Kgl. Court and university printing works of Dr. C. Wolf &. Son. Munich 1887
  4. ^ Member entry by Carl Christian Ernst Bezold at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Deininger (Ed.): Max Weber, On the social and economic history of antiquity: Writings and speeches 1893-1908. In: Max Weber Complete Edition, Volume 6, JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 2006, p. 131
  6. ↑ Signature: Heid. Hs. 1481-1502. 27 notebooks and fascicles (cuneiform collections, manuscripts), 25 boxes (correspondence)
personal data
SURNAME Bezold, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bezold, Carl Christian Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Semitist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Donauwörth
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1922
Place of death Heidelberg