Wolfgang Lentz (Iranist)
Otto Helmut Wolfgang Lentz (born February 23, 1900 in Hameln , † December 8, 1986 in Marburg ) was a German Iranist .
Life
Wolfgang Lentz's father, Alfred Lentz, was the director of the secondary school for girls, today's Viktoria-Luise-Gymnasium .
From 1918 to 1923 he studied in Munich and Göttingen and was a student of Friedrich Carl Andreas , Hermann Lommel .
1924–1942 he was a research associate at the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and worked in the three areas of Turfan fragments, Iranian dialectology and the interpretation of Zarathustras Gathas .
1942–1945 he served in the military and then worked in various positions. In 1950 he became a lecturer in Iranian Studies at the Department of Middle Eastern Language and Culture at the University of Hamburg and later a professor. 1957/1958 he was visiting professor at Columbia University and 1960/1961 at the University of Texas , Austin. From 1968 he retired in Marburg.
He traveled a lot: privately to the Pamirs, Afghanistan, India and Iran. He was a member of the German-Soviet Alai-Pamir Expedition in 1928 and of the German Hindu Kush Expedition in 1935 .
Fonts
- On the roof of the world: with phonograph and camera with forgotten peoples of the Pamir . German Book Association, Berlin 1931 ( digitized [PDF]).
- Iran 1951/1952 . Heidelberg 1952
- Yasna 28. Commented translation and composition analysis. Mainz 1955 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1954, Volume 16).
- Goethe's Notes and Treatises on the West-Eastern Divan . Hamburg 1961
- Time calculation in Nuristan and on the Pamir . Graz 1978
literature
- Journal of the German Oriental Society , Volume 139, 1989.
- Wilhelm Eilers : Wolfgang Lentz (1900-1986). In: Der Islam , Vol. 65, Heft 1 (1988), pp. 5-7.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Lentz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Helmut Wolfgang Lentz in the Encyclopædia Iranica
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Lentz: On the roof of the world: with phonograph and camera with forgotten peoples of the Pamir . German Book Association, Berlin 1931 ( digitized [PDF]).
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SURNAME | Lentz, Wolfgang |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lentz, Otto Helmut Wolfgang (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Iranist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1900 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamelin |
DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1986 |
Place of death | Marburg |