Mark Lidzbarski

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Lidzbarski Mark

Mark Lidzbarski (actually Abraham Mordechai Lidzbarski ; born January 7, 1868 in Plock , Weichselland , Russian Empire ; died November 13, 1928 in Göttingen ) was a German Semitist .

Life

Born in Poland in 1868 into an Eastern Jewish Hasidic family, Lidzbarski studied Semitic Philology in Berlin from 1889 to 1892 . There he converted to Protestant Christianity and changed his first name to "Mark". In February 1896 he received his habilitation in Oriental Philology at the University of Kiel . In 1907 he became a full professor at the University of Greifswald , succeeding Wilhelm Ahlwardt , and from 1917 professor in Göttingen as successor to Enno Littmann . From 1912 he was a corresponding and from 1918 a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

The Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) donated the Lidzbarski Medal named after him to honor Semitists in recognition of their life's work; earlier it was also awarded for prize work.

“In Berlin, Kiel, Greifswald and Göttingen Lidzbarski created works of lasting importance. He was active in three areas of science from the Middle East , neo-Aramaic dialectology, Semitic epigraphy and Mandaean philology; and in the latter two areas he was a recognized authority. "

- Enno Littmann

Works (selection)

  • Who is Chadhir? In: Journal of Assyriology. 7 (1892), pp. 104-116.
  • Some remarks on Stumme's Tunisian fairy tales. In: ZDMG. 48 (1894), pp. 666-670.
  • To the wise Achikar. In: ZDMG. 48 (1894), pp. 671-675.
  • Stories and songs from the New Aramaic manuscripts in the Royal Library of Berlin, Weimar. Emil Felber 1896 (= contributions to folklore and ethnology IV)
  • A supposedly newly discovered review of 1001 nights. In: ZDMG. 50 (1896), p. 152.
  • An exposé of the Yazidis. In: ZDMG. 51 (1897), pp. 592-604.
  • Handbook of North Semitic epigraphy with selected inscriptions. Part I: text. Weimar 1898 (reprint: Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1962)
  • Handbook of North Semitic epigraphy with selected inscriptions. Part II: panels. Weimar 1898 (reprint: Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1962)
  • Ephemeris for Semitic epigraphy. first volume: 1900-1902 J. Ricker'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Giessen 1902.
  • Old Semitic texts. first booklet: Canaanite inscriptions (Moabitic, Old Hebrew, Phoenician, Punic). Alfred Töpelmann, Giessen 1907.
  • The Mandaean book of souls. In: ZDMG. 61 (1907), pp. 689-698.
  • Ephemeris for Semitic epigraphy. second volume: 1903-1907. Alfred Töpelmann, Giessen 1908.
  • Sabaean "Oracle". In: ZDMG. 67 (1913), p. 182.
  • The Book of John of the Mandaeans . Introduction, translation, commentary. Alfred Töpelmann, Giessen 1915.
  • Ubi sunt qui ante nos in mundo fuere. In: Islam. 8 (1918), p. 300.
  • A desideratum. In: Islam. 8 (1918), pp. 300-301.
  • Too Arabic fahhar. In: ZDMG. 72 (1918), pp. 189-192.
  • Mandaean liturgies. Communicated, translated and explained. Berlin 1920 (= treatises of the royal society of science in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Class NF XVII, 1)
  • Altaramaic documents from Assur. JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1921 (excavations of the German Orient Society in Assur, E: inscriptions V) (reprint: Otto Zeller, Osnabrück 1970)
  • Salam and Islam. In: Journal for Semitic Studies and Related Areas. 1 (1922), pp. 85-96.
  • Ginza . The Treasure or The Great Book of the Mandaeans. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen and JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1925 ( online ; PDF file; 19.00 MB).

literature

  • Walter Bauer: Mark Lidzbarksi in memory. In: News of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Business communications 1928/29 . Pp. 71-77.
  • Ludmila Hanisch: Notes by Mark Lidzbarski (1868-1928) , From the estate of the German Oriental Society , From the estate edited by Pierre Motylewicz and Ute Pietruschka, Halle-Wittenberg 2015, eBook .
  • Mark Lidzbarski: On the rough road. Youth memories of a German professor. Giessen 1927.
  • Enno Littmann : A Century of Oriental Studies. Pictures of life from the pen of Enno Littmann and a list of his writings . Compiled by Rudi Paret and Anton Schall , Wiesbaden 1955, pp. 46–51.
  • Albert Dietrich:  Lidzbarski, Mark. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 470 ( digitized version ).
  • Lidzbarski, Mark. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 36-39.

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personal data
SURNAME Lidzbarski, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lidzbarski, Abraham Mordechai (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Semitist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Plock
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1928
Place of death Goettingen