Mark Lidzbarski (born Abraham Mordechai Lidzbarski,
Płock
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,
Russian Empire
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, 7 January 1868 –
Göttingen
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General information
The or ...
, 13 November 1928) was a Polish
philologist
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,
Semitist and translator of
Mandaean texts
This article contains a list of Mandaean texts (Mandaean religious texts written in Classical Mandaic). Well-known texts include the ''Ginza Rabba'' (also known as the ''Sidra Rabbā'') and the '' Qolastā''. Texts for Mandaean priests includ ...
.
Early life and education
Lidzbarski was born in
Russian Poland
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to a
Hasidic
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Eastern Jewish family, and from 1889 to 1892 studied Semitic
philology
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in
Berlin. There he converted to
evangelical Christianity
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and changed his first name to "Mark". In February 1896, he received his doctorate in Middle Eastern Studies at the
University of Kiel
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.
Career
In 1907, he succeeded
William Ahlwardt as professor at the
University of Greifswald
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, and in 1917, became professor in
Göttingen
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The or ...
as successor to
Enno Littmann
Ludwig Richard Enno Littmann (16 September 1875, Oldenburg – 4 May 1958, Tübingen) was a German orientalist.
In 1906 he succeeded Theodor Nöldeke as chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. Later on, he served as a profes ...
. From 1912, he was a corresponding member, and in 1918, a full member of the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences
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.
Lidzbarski Prize
The Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic Philology is awarded annually by the
German Oriental Society for work in Semitic studies and named after Mark Lidzbarski.
Works
* ''Wer ist Chadhir?'', in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 7 (1892), 104-116
* ''Einige Bemerkungen zu Stumme´s Tunisischen Märchen'', in: ZDMG 48 (1894), 666-670
* ''Zum weisen Achikar'', in: ZDMG 48 (1894), 671-675
* ''Geschichten und Lieder aus den neu-aramäischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Weimar'': Emil Felber 1896 (= Beiträge zur Volks- und Völkerkunde IV)
* ''Eine angeblich neuentdeckte Rezension von 1001 Nacht'', in: ZDMG 50 (1896), 152
* ''Ein Exposé der Jesiden'', in: ZDMG 51 (1897), 592-604
* ''Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften'', I. Teil: Text, Weimar 1898 (ND Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1962)
* ''Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften'', II. Teil: Tafeln, Weimar 1898 (ND Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1962)
* ''Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik''
** Eerster Band 1900-1902, Gießen: J. Ricker'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1902
** Zweiter Band 1903-1907, Gießen: Alfred Töpelmann 1908
*
Dritter Band 1903-1907 Gießen: Alfred Töpelmann 1915
* ''Altsemitische Texte'', erstes Heft: Kanaanäische Inschriften (Moabitisch, Althebräisch, Phönizisch, Punisch), Gießen: Alfred Töpelmann 1907
* ''Das mandäische Seelenbuch'', in: ZDMG 61 (1907), 689-698
* ''Sabäisch „Orakel“'', in: ZDMG 67 (1913), 182
* ''
Das Johannesbuch der Mandäer''. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar, Gießen: Alfred Töpelmann 1915
* ''Ubi sunt qui ante nos in mundo fuere'', in: Der Islam 8 (1918), 300
* ''Ein Desideratum'', in: Der Islam 8 (1918), 300-301
* ''Zu arabisch fahhar'', in: ZDMG 72 (1918), 189-192
* ''
Mandäische Liturgien''. Mitgeteilt, übersetzt und erklärt, Berlín 1920 (= Abhandlungen d. königl. Ges. d. Wiss. zu Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl. NF XVII, 1)
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* ''Altaramäische Urkunden aus Assur'', Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung 1921 (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Assur, E: Inschriften V) (ND Osnabrück: Otto Zeller 1970)
* ''Salam und Islam'', in: Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1922), 85-96
* ''
Ginza
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. Der Schatz oder Das große Buch der Mandäer'', Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht/Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung 1925
References
* Walter Bauer: "Mark Lidzbarski zum Gedächtnis". In: ''Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen''. Geschäftliche Mitteilungen 1928/29. pp. 71–77.
1868 births
1928 deaths
Writers from Płock
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
University of Greifswald faculty
University of Göttingen faculty
Converts to Protestantism from Judaism
Scholars of Mandaeism
German people of Polish-Jewish descent
Translators from Mandaic
Translators to German
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