Friedrich von Spiegel

Friedrich (of ) Mirrors ( born July 11, 1820 Kitzingen, † December 15, 1905 in Munich) was a German Orientalist, Iranist and connoisseurs of the Zend-Avesta.

Life

Mirror devoted himself in Erlangen, Leipzig and Bonn oriental language studies, conducted research 1842-47 in the libraries of Copenhagen, London and Oxford, and was Professor of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Erlangen since 1849. After he (Bonn 1841) and had the Anecdota palica (Leipzig, 1845 ) the study of the then little- known Pali language and of the Southern Buddhism made ​​an essential service by his editions of the Kammavâkya, he focused his research on the Iranian languages ​​and the Zoroastrian religion and delivered particularly a critical edition of the most important parts of the Zend-Avesta, including the old Pahlaviübersetzung thereof and a complete Germanization, the first scientific transmission of this important religious book ( Leipz. 1852-63, 3 vols ), which he comments on the Avesta (Leipzig 1865 - 69, 2 volumes) and a grammar of the language altbaktrischen (Leipzig was followed by 1867).

Works

  • Kammavâkya - Liber de Officiis sacerdotum Buddhicorum. Bonn 1841
  • Chrestomathia persica. Leipzig 1845
  • Grammar of Pârsisprache. Leipzig 1851
  • Introduction to the traditional writings of the Parsis. Leipzig 1856-60, 2 volumes
  • The Old Persian cuneiform inscriptions in the main text, with translation, grammar and glossary. Leipzig 1862, 2nd edition 1881
  • Eran, the country between the Indus and Tigris. Berlin 1863
  • Aryan studies. Leipzig 1873
  • Erânischen archeology. Leipzig 1871-78, 3 volumes ( In a sense, the conclusion of all his research )
  • A Comparative Grammar of the alterânischen languages. Leipzig 1882
  • The Aryan period and their states. Leipzig 1887

Numerous minor works, such as on the Iranian tribe Constitution, about the life of Zoroaster, among other things, he published in the Proceedings of the royal. Bavarian Academy, in the contributions to comparative philology, in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, and other journals.

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