Eduard Mahler, or Mahler Ede (September 28, 1857, Cífer

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, Austro-Hungarian Empire – June 29, 1945, Újpest

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) was a Hungarian-Austrian

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 astronomer

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, Orientalist

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, natural scientist.

He graduated from the Vienna public school in 1876, and then studied mathematics

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 and physics

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 at the Universität Wien

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, taking his degree in 1880. From November 1, 1882, till the death of T. Oppolzer

Theodor von Oppolzer

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 (December, 1886) Mahler shared in the latter's scientific labor

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s. On June 1, 1885, he was appointed assistant in the royal Austrian commission on measurement of degrees.

Mahler has devoted himself chiefly to chronology

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

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, and Egyptology

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, in which subjects he was a present private docent at the University of Budapest. On September 6, 1889, he received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus

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of Sweden and Norway; and since 1898 he has been an official of the Hungarian National Museum

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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);

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"