Victor Christian
| Prof. Dr Victor Christian | |||||
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| Born | 1885 | ||||
| Died | 1963 | ||||
| Residence | VI Mariahilferstrasse IA, Vienna, Austria | ||||
| Occupation | altorientalist | ||||
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1923.11.20 The following were nominated for election as Honorary Fellows (two vacancies): Prof. H. Fairfield Osborn, Dr Christian, Dr Orsi, Dr Nordenskiold and Prof. Morse
1924.11.18 nominated as Hon. Fellow
Notes From Elsewhere
Viktor Christian (* 30 March 1885 in Vienna , † 28 May 1963 in Walchsee ) was an Austrian altorientalist .
Viktor Christian, the son of a councilor of economics, studied linguistics , orientalism and geography at the University of Vienna, and on July 12, 1910, he became sub- phil. promoted . [1] During his studies, he became a member of the Burschenschaft Teutonia Vienna . [2] Subsequently he deepened his studies at the University of Berlin with Friedrich Delitzsch , Hugo Winckler and Felix von Luschan . From 1911 he worked as a scientific official in the ethnographic department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. From 1915 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer and went to Constantinople with the German-Austrian Orient Corps . After a short imprisonment, he returned to Vienna in 1919.
In 1920, Christian was appointed head of the ethnographic department. He also worked as a habilitation at the University of Vienna with Rudolf Geyer , which he reached with the venia legendi for Semitic on January 23,
On April 1, 1924, Christian received a reputation as an extraordinary professor of ancient Semitic philology and oriental archeology at the University of Vienna (as successor to Maximilian Bittner ). [3] On 1 November 1930 he was promoted to full professor.
Like Geyer, he was a member of the "secretly influential, anti-Semitic professors' group" Bärenhöhle ", which sought to prevent habilitations and appeals from Jewish or left scientists through interventions and agreements. [4] In 1933 Christian joined the NSDAP , which was banned shortly afterwards in Austria. In September 1934 Christian was temporarily retired. He took this as the occasion for a long-planned research trip in the Orient, which he paid from the fees of the Propylaea publishing house for an art historical book. In March 1936 he was reactivated as a professor.
After the annexation of Austria , Christian's career gained momentum: in September 1938 he became the correspondent and in May 1939 he was appointed a true member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He was involved in higher education policy, served as a deputy dean of the faculty of philosophy from 1939, and from 1943 as vice president of the university. At the academy he was a member or board of several commissions, such as the United North and South Arab Commission and the Commission of the Old South Arabian dictionary . As an SS leader , Christian also took part in the research community of the German ancestral gene and used his connections with Nazi officials to acquire books for the Oriental Institute through this research community. These were confiscated collections of the emigrated researchers Ludwig Feuchtwanger and Samuel Krauss, as well as the Jewish communities in Kittsee , Lackenbach and Frauenkirchen . The stocks were not provided with signatures, but only with a stamp "loan ancestral heritage". After the Second World War they were restored . [5] Christian was co-editor of the magazine for racial science . Within the SS, he was promoted to the SS Sturmbannführer in 1945. [6]
After the end of the Second World War Christian was dismissed as a full professor in the spring of 1945. He objected to the dismissal and finally reached his retirement age, where he was credited with full working time. On 12 July 1960, the University of Vienna renewed its doctoral program. [7]
Publications
External Publications
The names of the Assyrian-Babylonian symbols . Leipzig, 1913
with Heinrich Balcz , Karl Beth and others: The religions of the earth in individual representations . Vienna, 1929
The linguistic position of the Sumerian . Paris, 1932
Old-time customer of the two-stream country . Volume 1 in 4 deliveries, Leipzig 1938-1940 (more not published)
Investigations on the Hebrew Theory of the Hebrew . Vienna, 1953
Contributions to Sumerian grammar . Vienna, 1957
The origin of the Sumerians . Vienna, 1961
