Carl Bezold
Carl Bezold ( born May 18, 1859 in Donauwörth, † November 21, 1922 in Heidelberg ) was a German orientalist and semitist.
Life
Carl Bezold studied in Munich and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1880 at Friedrich Delitzsch on the Behistun inscription. In 1883 he qualified as a professor in Munich and became private. Habilitation was the first part of his edition of the Syrian treasure cave. Bezold devoted himself since 1888 in the British Museum in London Semitic studies and literary works. Among other things, he made a catalog of 14,500 cuneiform writings of the Kouyunjik collection. He arranged and cataloged review the extensive collection of cuneiform texts from the palace library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh and Tell el Amarna clay tablets. In 1894 he was appointed to Heidelberg as professor. He is known for his research on the Babylonian and Assyrian language and literature. He also dealt with the Syrian, Ethiopian ( Kebra Nagast his book of 1905 ) and Arabic.
In 1884 he founded with his teacher Fritz Hommel the magazine for cuneiform research, in 1886 the Journal of Assyriology and related fields was. He was from 1886 to 1922 whose sole publisher.
He also served as a publication in 1911 a supporter of Franz Xaver Kugler in its criticism of the then-current Panbabylonismus.
He married Adele Bezold 1888, daughter of Conrad Bursian classicists. She worked with him on the Babylonian - Assyrian posthumous Glossary.
He was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.