Assfalg Julius

Julius Assfalg (b. November 6, 1919, Aschau, Upper Bavaria — d. January 12, 2001, Munich) was a German orientalist, Kartvelologist, professor of the University of Munich, head of the Arabic Section of the Corpus of Christian Oriental Writings. Georgian Ecclesiastical Literature (1957), Bibliography of the Works of Michael Tarkhnishvili (1959), About the Liturgical Year and the New Georgian Church History (1960), Georgian Manuscripts (1963) and About Georgian Studies in Germany (1965) are Assfalg's works in Kartvelology that deserve great attention; Kita “Petre” Chkhenkeli (1964) and Jaromír Jedlička (1966) are also noteworthy. Bedi Kartlisa, Revue de Kartvélogie systematically published information about Assfalg: XVI Day of German Orientalists (1965), The 25th International Congress of Orientalists (1960), On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Professor Joseph Molitor (1974). He is the author of Small Dictionary of the Christian East (1974, with P. Kruger), Georgian Literature in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (1974); he translated K. Kekelidze's History of Ancient Georgian Writing along with M. Tarkhnishvili (Vol. 1, 1955) and others.

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