Werner sundermann

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Werner Sundermann (born December 22, 1935 in Thale ; † October 12, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German Iranist .

Life

Sundermann attended school in his native Thale until 1954, after which he studied Iranian Studies with Heinrich Junker and Bozorg Alavi and Arabic studies with Heinrich Simon at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1963 he was with the dissertation Sasanian ruler legitimacy and its terms to Dr. phil. PhD . Since Sundermann did not want to join the SED , he could no longer work at the university and subsequently worked in the Turfan research group of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . There he was in 1984 with the Dissertation B Studies on the history and value of historiographical traditions of the Manicheans with special consideration of the Iranian traditions on Dr. sc. phil. PhD.

In 1985 Sundermann became a corresponding member of the Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente in Rome, in 1988 a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and 1989 foreign member of the Danish Academy of Sciences . After the political change in the GDR in 1990 he became a member of the Academia Europaea and honorary lecturer at the Humboldt University. In 1991 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . From 1992 Sundermann was honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin and from 1993 head of the Turfan Research Group. Sundermann was an extraordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . Since 2003 he has also been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna .

Publications

  • The Sāsānid ruler legitimation and its conditions. Dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Philosophical Faculty, 1963, DNB 482308990 .
  • In Praise of the Beloved: Classical Persian Poems. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1968, DNB 578172356 .
  • Middle Iranian Manichaean texts with church-historical content (= writings on the history and culture of the ancient Orient / Berlin Turfantexte. Volume 11). With an appendix by Nicholas Sims-Williams . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 820486140 .
  • Studies on the history and value of historiographical traditions of the Manichaeans with special consideration of the Iranian traditions. Dissertation B at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1984.
  • A Manichaean-Soghdian parable book. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • The Sermon of the Soul: a literary work of Eastern Manichaeism. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-07310-9 .
  • The Sermon of the Light-Nous: a textbook of Eastern Manichaeism. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-002016-4 .

literature

  • Christiane Reck (ed.): Iran and Turfan. Contributions from Berlin scientists, dedicated to Werner Sundermann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03716-4 .
  • Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Hrsg.): Literary materials and their design in Central Iranian times. Colloquium on the occasion of Werner Sundermann's 70th birthday. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-89500-671-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Stefan Zimmer : Werner Sundermann (December 22, 1935 - October 12, 2012). (PDF; 31 kB) In: Thesaurus for Indo-European text and language materials . November 23, 2012, accessed August 23, 2016 .
  2. ^ Fellows: Werner Sundermann. British Academy, accessed August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sundermann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Iranist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Thale
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2012
Place of death Berlin