Editing Eberhard Schrader

{{Short description|German orientalist (1836–1908)}}
[[File:Eberhard Schrader.jpg|thumb|Eberhard Schrader, about the 1880s]]
'''Eberhard Schrader''' (7 January 1836 – 4 July 1908) was a German [[oriental studies|orientalist]] primarily known for his achievements in [[Assyriology]].

==Biography==
He was born at [[Braunschweig]], and educated at [[university of Göttingen|Göttingen]] under [[Georg Heinrich August Ewald|Ewald]].  In 1858 he won a university prize for a treatise on the [[Ethiopia]]n languages, and in 1863 became professor of [[theology]] at the [[University of Zürich]]. Subsequently, he occupied chairs at [[University of Giessen|Giessen]] (1870) and [[University of Jena|Jena]] (1873), and finally became professor of Oriental languages at the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelm University]], [[Berlin]] in 1878. 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 in [[Berlin]] and he was buried at the [[Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery]].

==Works==
His publications include:

*''Studien zur Kritik und Erklärung der biblischen Urgeschichte'' (1863).
*[[Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette]]'s ''Einleitung in das Alte Testament'', 8th edition (1869).
*''Die assyrisch-babylonischen keilinschriften'' (1872).
*''Die keilinschriften und das Alte Testament'' (1872; 3rd edition by [[Heinrich Zimmern]] and [[Hugo Winckler]], 1901–02).
*''Keilinschriften und Geschichtsforschung'' (1878). [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081838405&view=1up&seq=9 online]
*''Die Höllenfahrt der Istar'' (text, trans., notes, 1874).
*''Die Namen der Meere in den assyrischen Inschriften'', Berlin 1878 ([https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014668917&view=1up&seq=3 online])
*''Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung der altbabylonischen Kultur'' (1884).
*''Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek'', in conjunction with scholars Ludwig Abel, Carl Bezold, Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen, Felix Ernst Peiser and Hugo Winckler (1889).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/keilinschriftli01unkngoog|title=Keilinschriftliche bibliothek|last=Eberhard Schrader|first=Ludwig Abel|date=1889|publisher=Berlin, Reuther & Reichard|others=Harvard University}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Schrader, Eberhard|volume=24 |page=378}}

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