Author: Hüsing, Georg [1869-1930]
Title: Völkerschichten in Iran
Description: Wien, Anthropologischen Gesellsch. 1916. orig. wrappers. 29x21cm, (50) pp, Extract from "Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien. Bd. 46".. Folding map; photoplate.. Rubbed. Spine chipped. Good. ¶ ["From 1921 to 1930, Georg Hüsing (1869–1930), a student of Spiegel and Andreas, held a professorship of History of the Ancient East and Iran (he had been Privatdozent since 1912). His contributions to the (pre)history of Mazdaism are, like most others in that period, vitiated by the Andreas theory; they appeared bold even to contemporaries in their explicit rejection of Bartholomae. Hüsing was more successful in interpreting Middle Elamite (although somewhat misled by his belief that Elamite was a Caucasian language) and in editing all Elamite texts available to him...."- Encyclopaedia Iranica].

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