Erich Bischoff

Oswald Erich Bischoff (born July 30, 1865 in Görlitz , Province of Silesia ; died January 14, 1936 in Leipzig ) was a German orientalist , Germanist , religious researcher , author and translator.

Life

Erich Bischoff was a son of the businessman Oswald Bischoff and his wife Auguste, née. Thomae. He studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle, and was founded in 1890 in Erlangen with the thesis Prolegomena to the so-called Dionysius Cato to Dr. phil. PhD. In the following year he passed the 1st state examination. He then taught at high schools in Wernigerode and Merseburg . In 1894 he married Emma, ​​b. Loewe, with whom he had two daughters. In 1908 he became editor-in-chief for several magazines at the Bernhard Meyer publishing house in Leipzig. In the 1920s, he appeared repeatedly in court proceedings against prominent anti-Semites as an expert at their side. From 1933 he worked as a private scholar .

Translations

• Buddhist Catechism (Olcott) - from the English original by Henry Steel Olcott , Leipzig 1887

Own works

• Prolegomena to the so-called Dionysius Cato , Erlangen 1890
• The Camarilla at the Prussian court a historical study, Friedrich, Leipzig 1895 ISBN 978-1241552831
• Critical history of the Thalmud translations of all times and tongues , J. Kauffmann, Frankfurt a. M. 1899. ISBN 9781287565352
• Foreign dictionary on theosophical literature , Grieben, Leipzig around 1900
• Explanations of Schiller's " Fiesko " , From the series King's Explanations of the Classics Volume 23, Herm. Beyer, Leipzig 1900
• Explanations of Lessing's " Laokoon " , From the series King's Explanations of the Classics, Herm. Beyer Volume 33–34, Leipzig 1900
• Explanations of Lessing's Hamburg Dramaturgy , From the series King's Explanations of the Classics Volume 62–63, Herm. Beyer, Leipzig 1902
• Explanations on Goethe : " Werther's suffering " , From the series King's Explanations of the Classics Volume 79, Herm. Beyer, Leipzig 1903
• Explanations to Hebbel's " Gyges und seine Ring " , from the series King's Explanations of the Classics Volume 86, H. Beyer, Leipzig 1903
• Explanations of the Nibelungenlied , From the series King's Explanations of the Classics, Volume 94–95, Herm. Beyer, Leipzig 1903
• Thalmud Catechism , Engel, Leipzig 1904 ISBN 3730601903
• Jesus and the rabbis ; Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and "Kingdom of Heaven" in their independence from rabbinism , JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1905 ISBN 978-1113181688
• In the realm of Gnosis The mystical teachings d. jew. u. christl. Gnosticism, d. Mandaeism u. Manichaeism a . her Babylonian - astral origin, Greaves, Leipzig 1906 ISBN 978-3-902792-11-2
• Babylonian astral in the world view of the Thalmud and Midrash , JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1907 ISBN 978-1110262298
• The Korân , Gustav Engel, Leipzig 1915
• Dictionary of the most important secret and professional languages, Jewish-German, Rotwelsch , customer language , soldiers , sailors , weidmen , miners and others. Comedy language , Greaves, Leipzig 1916
• Clarity in the Eastern Jewish Question Facts, Thoughts, etc. Principles, Globus, Leipzig 1916
• Jewish-German and German-Jewish interpreters Short dictionary f. Trade u. Transport, Grieben, Leipzig 1916
• The Kabbalah , Grieben, Leipzig 1917, ISBN 978-3730601907
• The Beyond the Soul To the mysticism of life after death; (Immortality - eternal return - resurrection - transmigration of souls ); The immortal Souls of all victims d. Dedicated to World War I, Barsdorf, Berlin 1919 ISBN 978-3-902640-02-4
• The mysticism and magic of numbers , Barsdorf, Berlin 1920, ISBN 978-3-943233-49-0
• Miracles of Kabbalah Occult Practice d. Kabbalists; Secret science studies , J. Baum, Pfullingen 1921 ISBN 3-921338-28-X
• Foreign dictionary of theosophical literature , Grieben, Leipzig 1921
• Rabbinical fables on the Talmud, Shulchan aruch , Kol nidrê etc. A court report , W. Kramer, Leipzig 1922
• Rabbi and Deacon A court opinion, W. Kramer, Leipzig 1922
• The victory of alchemy the rediscovered secret of making real gold from base metals; a hike from night to light, H. Barsdorf, Berlin 1925 ISBN 978-3-89094-587-3
• The book from Schulchan aruch , Hammer-Verlag, Leipzig 1929
• The blood in Jewish literature and custom, along with detailed notes; an investigation, L. Beust, Leipzig 1929 ISBN 978-3-902640-03-1
• Los from God? A question of time, Deutscher Literatur-Verlag, Dresden 1936

Published posthumously :

• Astral secrets of ancient mysteries , Arcturus-Verlag, Schäffern 2003 ISBN 3-901489-30-4
• The elements of Kabbalah , Bohmeier, Leipzig 2008 ISBN 978-3-89094-589-7

literature

• Martin Finkenberger: Bischoff, Erich Oswald . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Anti-Semitism in Past and Present, Volume 8: Supplements and Register . Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2015 ISBN 978-3-11-037932-7 , p. 44ff.
• Bischoff, Erich , in: Encyclopedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 4, Sp. 1055f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Bischoff in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bischoff, Osw. Erich In: Degeners Who is it? 10th edition. Berlin 1935.