Eberhard Schrader

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Eberhard Schrader probably in the 1880s

Eberhard Schrader (born January 7, 1836 in Braunschweig , † July 4, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German Old Testament scholar and orientalist who founded Assyriology in Germany.

Life

Schrader studied at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Hercynia Göttingen Progreß fraternity in 1856 , as a pupil of Heinrich von Ewald . In 1858 he received his doctorate on Ethiopian languages . In 1863 he became a professor of theology at the University of Zurich .

Via chairs at the Universities of Giessen (1870) and Jena (1873), he came to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in 1875 as professor for Semitic languages . In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In December 1874 he became a member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences . One of his students was Lazarus Goldschmidt .

Eberhard Schrader died in Berlin in 1908 at the age of 72 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Schrader's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin. His tomb there has been preserved.

Fonts

  • Studies on the Critique and Explanation of Biblical Prehistory (1863)
  • 8th edition of De Wettes Introduction to the Old Testament (1869)
  • The Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions (1872)
  • The cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament (1872; 3rd edition by Zimmer and Winckler, 1901–1902)
  • Cuneiform inscriptions and historical research (1878) online
  • The journey to hell of the Istar (text, trans., Notes; Ricker, Gießen, 1874) ( online )
  • The names of the seas in the Assyrian inscriptions , Berlin 1878 ( online )
  • On the question of the origin of the ancient Babylonian culture (1884)
  • Cuneiform library (1877), with other scholars.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see paragraph 209
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Eberhard Schrader. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 13, 2015 .
  3. ^ Members of the SAW: Eberhard Schrader. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed November 30, 2016 .
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 308, 478.

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personal data
SURNAME Schrader, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Old Testament scholar and ancient orientalist who founded Assyriology in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1908
Place of death Berlin