Felix Ernst Peiser

Felix Ernst Peiser (mostly Felix Peiser , born July 27, 1862 in Berlin ; † April 24, 1921 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German ancient orientalist .

Life

Felix Peiser was the son of the Jewish publisher Wolf Peiser and his wife Rosalia geb. Gottheil , his sister was the future librarian Bona Peiser . Peiser studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Leipzig . He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1886. He completed his habilitation in 1890 at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1894 he went to the Albertus University of Königsberg as a private lecturer in Assyriology , which only appointed him professor in 1905 .

In 1899 he founded the Orientalist literary newspaper , whose first editor and editor he was. In addition, he devoted himself more and more to local prehistory in Königsberg. From 1916 he was the successor to Adalbert Bezzenberger chairman of the Prussia antiquity society .

Cuneiform acts from Babylonian cities. From stones and tablets of the Berlin Museum in autograph, transcription and translation . Wolf Peiser, Berlin 1889.
Sketch of the Babylonian Society . Wolf Peiser, Berlin 1896.
The Prophet Habakkuk. An Inquiry into the Critique of the Old Testament . Wolf Peiser, Berlin 1903.
with Emil Hollack : The burial ground of Moythienen . Gräfe & Unzer, Königsberg 1904.
The cemetery of Pajki near Praßnitz in Poland . Gräfe & Unzer, Königsberg 1916.

Gotthelf Bergstrasse : Felix Peiser . In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung , vol. 24, no. 5/6, May / June 1921, col. 97-102 ( digitized version ).
Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University of Königsberg. Their story from the founding of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , p. 131 f.