EBERHARD

See also:

• EBERHARD SCHRADER (1836-1908)

SCHRADER (1836-1908)  , German orientalist, was born at Brunswick on the 7th of January 1836, and educated at Gottingen under Ewald . In 1858 he took a university prize for a treatise on the Ethiopian languages, and in 1863 became professor of theology at Zurich . Subsequently he occupied chairs at Giessen (187o) and Jena (1873), and finally became professor of oriental languages at Berlin . Though he turned first to biblical research, his chief achievements were in the field of Assyriology, in which he was a pioneer in Germany and acquired an international reputation . He died on the 4th of July 19o8 . His publications include: Studien zur Kritik and Erkldrung der biblischen Urgeschichte (1863); the 8th edition of De Wette's Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1869) ; Die assyr.-babyl . Keilinschriften (1872); Die Keilinschriften and das Alt . Test . (1872; 3rd ed. by Zimmern and Winckler, 1901–1902); Keilinschriften and Geschichtsforschung (1878); Die Hollenfahrt der Istar (text, trans., notes, 1874) ; Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung der altbabylonischen Kultur (1884); in conjunction with other scholars, Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek (1877) .