Bezold, Carl Ernst Christian
BEZOLD, bê´´zōld´, CARL ERNST CHRISTIAN:
German Orientalist; b. at Donauwörth (25 m. n.n.w.
of Augsburg), Bavaria, May 18, 1859. He was
educated at the universities of Munich (1876–79),
Leipsic (1879–80; Ph.D., 1881), and Strasburg
(1881), and became privat-docent at Munich in
1883. He continued his studies at Rome in the
spring of 1884 and at London in the summer of
1882 and 1887, while from 1888 to 1894 he was
employed in the British Museum. Since the latter
year he has been professor of Oriental philology
and director of the Oriental seminar at the University of Heidelberg. In 1884 he founded, at
Leipsic, the Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung,
which was continued in the following year as the
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, and which he has edited
to the present time. He likewise edited the second
edition of C. F. A. Dillmann's Grammatik der
äthiopischen Sprache (Leipsic, 1899) and the Orientalische Studien in honor of the seventieth birthday
of T. Nöldeke (2 vols., Giessen, 1906), and was
the founder and editor of the Semitistische Studien
(Berlin, 1894 sqq.). In 1904 he became one of the
editors of the Archiv für Religionswissenschaft.
He has also written Die grosse Dariusinschrift am
Felsen van Behistun (Leipsic, 1881); Die Achämenideninschriften (1882); Die Schatzhöhle, syrisch und
deutsch (2 vols., 1883–88); The Ordinary Canon of
the Mass according to the Use of the Coptic Church,
in C. A. Swainson's Greek Liturgies (London, 1884);
Kurzgefasster Ueberblick über die babylonisch-as-syrische Literatur (Leipsic, 1886); Catalogue of the
Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of
the British Museum (5 vols., London, 1889–99);
The Tell-el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum (1892); Oriental Diplomacy (1893); Ninive und
Babylon (Bielefeld, 1903); Die babylonisch-assyrischen
Keilinschriften und ihre Bedeutung für das Alte Testament (Tübingen, 1904); Babylonisch-Assyrische Texte
übersetzt: i. Die Schöpfungslegende (Bonn, 1904); and
Kebra Nagast, die Herrlichkeit der Könige (Ethiopic text and German translation, Munich, 1905).