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, Orientalist, and

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. He graduated from a

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public school in 1876 and then studied

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, receiving his degree in 1880. From November 1, 1882 until the death of Theodor von Oppolzer in December, 1886, Mahler participated in Oppolzer's research. On June 1, 1885, he was an appointed an assistant in the royal Austrian Institute of Weights and Measures. Mahler devoted himself chiefly to

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. In early life, he paid considerable attention to ancient Oriental history,

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, in which subjects he was a present private docent at the

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. On September 6, 1889, he received the royal medal ''

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Literary works

Mahler has published: * "''Fundamentalsätze der Allgemeinen Flächentheorie''," Vienna, 1881; * "''Astronomische Untersuchung über die in der Bibel erwähnte ägyptische Finsterniss''," ib. 1885; * "''Die Centralen Sonnenfinsternisse''," ib. 1885; * "''Biblische Chronologie und Zeitrechnung der Hebräer''," ib. 1887; * "''Fortsetzung der Wüstenfeld'schen Vergleichungs-Tabellen der Muhammedanischen und Christlichen Zeitrechnung''," Leipzig, 1887; * "''Chronologische Vergleichungs-Tabellen''," Vienna, 1889; * "''Maimonides' Kiddusch-Hachodesch''," ib. 1890 (translated and explained); * "''Handbuch der jüdischen Chronologie''," London, 1916; besides many papers in Hungarian as well as contributions to various German scientific journals, as: * "''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft''" * "''Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften''" * "''Journal Asiatique''" * "''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie''" * "''Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik''" * "''Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde''"

References

* Ludwig Julius Eisenberg, Artist and writer encyclopedia ''Das Geistige Wien'' (1889), ii. 321-322. 1857 births 1945 deaths Hungarian archaeologists Austrian archaeologists 19th-century Hungarian astronomers Jewish astronomers Austrian orientalists Hungarian orientalists Jewish orientalists Hungarian Jews People from Trnava District 20th-century Hungarian astronomers Litteris et Artibus recipients Orientalists from Austria-Hungary Astronomers from Austria-Hungary Archaeologists from Austria-Hungary {{Hungary-scientist-stub