Eberhard Schrader

Eberhard Schrader ( born January 7, 1836 in Braunschweig, † July 4, 1908 in Berlin) was a German Old Testament scholar and orientalist, who founded the Assyriology in Germany.

He studied at the University of Göttingen as a student of Heinrich Ewald. During his studies, he became in 1854 a member of the Progress fraternity Hercynia Göttingen. In 1858, he completed a doctorate on Ethiopian languages. In 1863 he became professor of theology at the University of Zurich. About professorships at the universities of Giessen (1870 ) and Jena (1873 ) he arrived in 1875 as professor of Semitic languages ​​at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. One of his students was Lazarus Goldschmidt. His final resting place is located on the southwest Stahnsdorf.

Writings

• Studies on the criticism and explanation of the biblical prehistory (1863 )
• 8th edition of De Wette's Introduction to the Old Testament ( 1869)
• The Assyrian- Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions (1872 )
• The cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament (1872, 3rd edition of rooms and Winckler, 1901-1902 )
• Cuneiform inscriptions and historical research (1878 )
• The Harrowing of Istar (text, trans, notes, . Ricker, Giessen, 1874)
• On the question of the origin of ancient Babylonian culture (1884 )
• Cuneiform library (1877 ), with other scholars.