Alfred, Baron Von Gutschmid

From LoveToKnow 1911

ALFRED GUTSCHMID, BARON VON (1835-1887), German historian and Orientalist, was born on the 1st of July at Loschwitz (Dresden). After holding chairs at Kiel (1866), Konigsberg (1873), and Jena (1876), he was finally appointed professor of history at Tubingen, where he died on the 2nd of March 1887. He devoted himself to the study of Eastern language and history in its pre-Greek and Hellenistic periods and contributed largely to the literature of the subject.


Works

. - fiber die Fragmente des Pompeius Trogus (supplementary vol. of Jahrbiicher fur klass. Phil., 1857); Die makedonische Anagraphe (1864); Beilreige zur Gesch. des alten Orients (Leipzig, 1858); Neue Beitrdge zur Gesch. des alt. Or., vol. i., Die Assyriologie in Deutschland (Leipzig, 1876); Die Glaubwiirdigkeit der armenischen Gesch. des Moses von Khoren (1877); Untersuchungen fiber die syrische Epitome des eusebischen Canones (1886); Untersuch. fiber die Gesch. des Kiinigreichs Osraene (1887); Gesch. Innis (Alexander the Great to the fall of the Arsacidae) (Tubingen, 1887). He wrote on Persia and Phoenicia in the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. A collection of minor works entitled Kleine Schriften was published by F. Ruhl at Leipzig (1889-1894, 5 vols.), with complete list of his writings. See article by Ruhl in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlix. (1904).


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