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A letter from Th. Nöldeke to E. Mittwoch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Eugen Mittwoch, the distinguished orientalist, died in London in 1942 at the age of 66. His writings, particularly in the field of Ethiopian languages, have retained their value and importance even at a time when much progress has been made in this branch of studies.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 5 - 8
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page 5 note 1 cf. Mittwoch, , Festschrift, MGWJ, LXXXI, 1937 Google Scholar, which also contains a bibliography of his writings by W. Gottschalk (pp. 243–50); Littmann, , ZDMG XCIX (for 1945–1949), 2 Google Scholar, 1950, 143–6 (reprinted in Littmann'sEin Jahrhundert Orientalistik, Wiesbaden, 1955, 128–33).
page 5 note 2 These papers were shown to me by Mittwoch's daughters whose courtesy is gratefully acknowledged.
page 5 note 3 Well-known from his Amharic Yäityoya h zb tarik ‘History of the Ethiopian people’ and his w, Moncullo, 1889 (reprinted and reissued, Asmara, 1965). Cf. Guidi, I., ‘Il sawasew’, in Bezold, C. (ed.), Orientalische Studien Theodor Nöldeke… gewidmet, Giessen, 1906, II, 913–23Google Scholar; Moreno, M. M. in Eassegna di Studi Etiopici, VIII (for 1949), 1950, 19 Google Scholar.
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page 6 note(1) Noldeke was appointed to Strassburg University in 1872, retired in 1906, but remained there until 1920 when he went to live at his son's house at Karlsruhe where he died in 1930 at the age of 94.
page 6 note(2) See footnotes (3), (7), and (9) for bibliographical details.
page 6 note(3) Die Verbreitung des Islam in Togo und Kamerun (with D. Westermann), Berlin, D. Reimer, 1914, 90 pp.
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