Wilhelm Eilers (Orientalist)

Wilhelm Eilers (born September 27, 1906 in Leipzig , † July 3, 1989 in Würzburg ) was a German Iranist .

Life

Eilers studied music and law as well as linguistics and cuneiform script in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Leipzig, a. a. with Hans Heinrich Schaeder . He made the acquaintance of Walther Hinz . In 1931 he received his doctorate in Leipzig on company forms in ancient Babylonian law . In the same year he became a member of the DMG . In 1936 he completed his habilitation at Schaeder in Leipzig. From 1936 he was a scientific consultant at the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich (AIDR) in Berlin. In 1937 he traveled to Iran , first in Tehran and then in Isfahan , to set up a branch of the AIDR after Eilers failed to come up with a plan to set up a branch in Baghdad in Iraq due to a lack of financial support from the Führer’s office . In May 1939 Eilers became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 7,050,868).

In 1941 Eilers, who at that time was also the cultural warden of the Isfahan branch of the NSDAP / AO, was taken prisoner by the British during research work at the AIDR in Isfahan and was interned in Australia until 1947. There he taught Hebrew at the University of Sydney , after which he taught in Colombo . In 1952 he returned to Germany and became a clerk of the Orientalia at the West German Library in Marburg , where it concerned the outsourced holdings of the Prussian State Library ; at the same time he had a teaching position at the Semitic seminar in Marburg. From 1962 he was professor of oriental studies in Würzburg . He was also one of the co-editors of the Encyclopædia Iranica . Since 1973 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Honors

1974: Honorary doctorate from the University of Tehran
1974: Order of Humayun (Commandeur)
1981: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

The law stele of Chammurabi. Laws at the turn of the third millennium BC. 1932 (New edition 2009: Codex Hammurabi: The Hammurabi legal stele of Hammurabi. )

The old name of the Persian New Year (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born in 1953, Volume 2). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden). Mainz 1953.

German-Persian dictionary. Published in several deliveries from A to moist between 1959 and 1983

As editor: Persian manuscripts. Part 1. 1968

The comparative semasiological method in oriental studies . 1974

Edited with Ulrich Schapka: West Iranian dialects from the Wilhelm Eilers collection. Volume 1: The dialect of Chunsar. 1976; Volume 2: The dialect of Gäz. 1979; Volume 3: The dialect of Sivänd . 1988

Meaning and origin of the planet names . 1978

Geographical naming in and around Iran. An overview in examples. 1982

The name Demawend . 1988

literature

Hellmut Braun : Wilhelm Eilers (1906–1989). In: Der Islam , Volume 67, Issue 2, 1990, pp. 193-198.
Walther Hinz : Wilhelm Eilers (1906–1989). In: Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Volume 141, No. 1, 1991, pp. 1-6
Rüdiger Schmitt : Obituary: Wilhelm Eilers 1906–1989. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes , 80th volume, 1990, pp. 7–12
Gernot Wießner (Ed.): Festschrift for Wilhelm Eilers . Wiesbaden 1967
Gernot Wießner: Wilhelm Eilers: life and work. In: Oriens, Volume 33, 1992, pp. 460-469

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Eilers in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Wilhelm Eilers in the German Digital Library
Rüdiger Schmitt: EILERS, WILHELM . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume VIII (3), as of December 9, 2011 (English, including references)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 475.
↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 197.
↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 38.
↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 72, 198.
↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 72.
^ Member entry by Wilhelm Eilers (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 31, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Eilers, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	3rd July 1989
Place of death	Wurzburg

[Ellinger475-1] A ^b Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 475.

[2] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 197.

[3] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 38.

[4] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 72, 198.

[5] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 72.

[6] Member entry by Wilhelm Eilers (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 31, 2017.