Gotthold Weil
Gotthold Eljakim Weil (born May 13, 1882 in Berlin ; † April 25, 1960 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli orientalist and librarian .
He studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin , where from 1914 he also taught in the seminary for Turkic Studies.
From 1915 he worked alongside Eugen Wednesday (who had been there since 1908) as a lecturer at the Veitel Heine Ephraim School (VHEL) in Berlin. In 1918 he became head of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library .
From 1931 to 1934 he was Professor of Oriental Studies at the Oriental Seminar of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He also taught at the University for the Science of Judaism in Berlin. In the course of the National Socialist measures of " Gleichschaltung ", he was forced to retire as a Jewish lecturer .
That is why he emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and was head of the national library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem until 1946 . His successor in this office was Curt Wormann .
Works (selection)
- Floor plan and system of the old Arabic meters. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1958, OCLC 929750197 ( limited preview with search function in the Google book search).
- Veitel Heine Ephraim School. In: Jewish Lexicon . Vol. IV / 2. Lim. by Georg Herlitz and Bruno Kirschner . Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1930, OCLC 309930633 , Sp. 1160 f. (under the author's abbreviation "G. W."; uni-frankfurt.de ); Reprint of the 1st edition by Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1987, ISBN 3-610-00400-2 , here Vol. 4/2: S – Z, DNB 820798622 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gotthold Weil in the catalog of the German National Library
- Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933–1945. Because, Gotthold (Eliakim). In: zflprojekte.de. Persecuted German-speaking Linguists, last updated on May 8, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gotthold Weil: Veitel Heine Ephraimsche Lehranstalt. In: Jewish Lexicon . Vol. IV / 2. Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1930, Sp. 1160 f. ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
- ↑ Ernst G. Lowenthal: College for the Science of Judaism. In: diegeschichteberlins.de. Association for the History of Berlin e. V., founded 1865 , accessed on June 16, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Because, Gotthold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Because, Gotthold Eljakim (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli orientalist and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1960 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |