Author · Eritrea
Enno Littmann
Died in 1958
Enno Littmann was born in 1875 in Oldenburg. An orientalist, he deciphered the Safaitic script in 1901 and published Palmyrene, Nabataean and Syriac inscriptions. In 1905 he stayed among the Tigre of Eritrea, in 1906 he led the German Aksum expedition and in the same year succeeded Nöldeke in Strasbourg, before teaching at Göttingen, Bonn and Tübingen. He translated the Thousand and One Nights into German and died in Tübingen in 1958.
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