Eduard Sachau

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Carl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845, Neumünster – 17 September 1930, Berlin) was a German orientalist.

Biography

Sachau became professor extraordinary 1869 and full professor 1872 at the University of Vienna, and in 1876, professor at the University of Berlin, where he was appointed director of the new Seminar of Oriental languages in 1887. He travelled to the Near East on several occasions (see his book 'Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien' published 1883) . He is especially noteworthy for his work on Syriac and other Aramaic dialects. He was an expert on Al-Biruni and wrote a translation of Kitab al Hind which describes among other things Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Bibliography

"Three Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine, Egypt" in Smithsonian Institution Annual Report (1907): 605-11. [Translated and abstracted, by permission, from "Drei Aramaeische Papyrusurkunden aus Elephantine" by Eduard Sachau in the Abhandlungen der koeniglichen preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften for the year 1907.]

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 59148673 LCCN: n84039385 ISNI: 0000 0001 0905 6367 GND: 116713712 BNF: cb12298452x

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Name	Sachau, Eduard
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Short description	German orientalist
Date of birth	20 July 1845
Place of birth
Date of death	1930
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