Alfred von Gutschmid

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Alfred von Gutschmid

Hermann Alfred Freiherr (Baron) von Gutschmid (1 July 1835 – 2 March 1887), German historian and Orientalist, was born at Loschwitz near (Dresden).

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. After holding chairs at Kiel (1866), Königsberg (1873), and Jena (1876), he was finally appointed professor of history at Tübingen, where he remained till his death.

Works

• Über die Fragmente des Pompeius Trogus (supplementary vol. of Jahrbücher für klass. Phil., 1857)
• Die makedonische Anagraphe (1864)
• Beiträge zur Gesch. des alten Orients (Leipzig, 1858)
• Neue Beiträge zur Gesch. des alt. Or., vol. i., Die Assyriologie in Deutschland (Leipzig, 1876)
• Die Glaubwürdigkeit der armenischen Gesch. des Moses von Khoren (1877)
• Untersuchungen über die syrische Epitome des eusebischen Canones (1886)
• Untersuch. über die Gesch. des Königreichs Osraëne (1887)
• Gesch. Irans (Alexander the Great to the fall of the Arsacidae) (Tübingen, 1887)

He wrote on Persia and Phoenicia in the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A collection of minor works entitled Kleine Schriften was published by Franz Rühl at Leipzig (1889–1894, 5 vols.), with complete list of his writings. See article by Rühl in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlix. (1904).

See also

• Victor Gardthausen – one of his students

References

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