Wilhelm Eilers Explained

Wilhelm Eilers (27 September 1906 in Leipzig – 3 July 1989 in Würzburg) was a German Iranist.[1]

Life

Eilers studied music and law as well as linguistics and the cuneiform script in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Leipzig, among others. With Hans Heinrich Schaeder. He made the acquaintance of Walther Hinz. In 1931 he received his doctorate in Leipzig on forms of society 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 research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire (AIDR) in Berlin. In 1937 he traveled to Iran, first in Tehran, then in Isfahan to set up a branch of the AIDR,[2] 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.[3]

Book

Book: Eilers, Wilhelm . 1979 . Die Al: Ein persisches Kindbettgespenst (Sitzungsberichte / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse) . Komm . bei Beck . 86. 376961500X .

Works

Notes and References

  1. Ekkehard Ellinger: Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus 1933–1945. Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, S. 38.
  2. Ekkehard Ellinger: Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus 1933–1945. Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, S. 475.
  3. Ekkehard Ellinger: Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus 1933–1945. Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, S. 197.