Wolfgang Lentz (Iranist)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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]).
personal data
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