Daniil Avraamowitsch Chwolson

Daniil Awraamowitsch Chwolson ( Russian Даниил Авраамович Хвольсон ; born November 21 ^jul. / 3. December 1819 ^greg. In Vilnius ; died March 23 ^jul. / 5. April 1911 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ) was a Russian Orientalist and Antiquarian.

Life

Chwolson came from a Jewish family and was taught Talmudic sciences at an early age . Since 1840 he studied oriental languages in Breslau , in 1847 he went to Vienna to research oriental manuscripts. In 1850 he received his doctorate with Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer's work on the Sabier in Leipzig . In the same year he went to Saint Petersburg and continued his studies there. There he converted to Christianity in 1855 and became professor of oriental languages at the University of St. Petersburg . In 1858 a professorship at the Russian Spiritual Academy followed.

Chwolson took a firm stand against the ritual murder charges brought against Jews .

During excavations in Kyrgyzstan in the 1890s, Chwolson discovered over 600 Syrian tombstone inscriptions from the 14th century and was thus able to provide evidence for the first time that the Assyrian Church of the East was spread significantly further north than had previously been assumed.

Major works

The Ssabians and Ssabism . 2 vols. Petersburg (1856)
About the remains of ancient Babylonian literature in Arabic translations . Petersburg (1859)
About Tammuz and the degradation of humans among the ancient Babylonians . Petersburg (1860)
About some medieval accusations against the Jews . Russian, Petersburg (1861)
News about Khazars, Burtassen, Bulgarians, etc. Ibn Dafta . Russian, Petersburg (1867)
The Semitic peoples . Berlin (1872)
The last supper and the anniversary of Christ's death . Russian, Petersburg (1875–78)
Syrian Nestorian grave inscriptions from Semirechie . Petersburg (1890)
The last Passover meal of Christ and the day of his death . German, Petersburg (1892)
Syrian-Nestorian grave inscriptions from Semirechie, new series . Petersburg (1897)

literature

Chwolson, Daniil Avraamowitsch. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 123-127.

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personal data
SURNAME	Chwolson, Daniil Avraamowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chwolson, Daniel; Хвольсон, Даниил Авраамович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian orientalist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vilna
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1911
Place of death	Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire