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Hoffmann, Karl: Kleines Gatha-Lesebuch: Edited from the literary estate by Bernhard Forssman, with the collaboration of Jürgen Habisreitinger. With a contribution by Almut Hintze., edited by Bernhard Forssman, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1672

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11/04/2025

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Karl Hoffmann, Bernhard Forssman (Ed.)

Kleines Gatha-Lesebuch

Edited from the literary estate by Bernhard Forssman, with the collaboration of Jürgen Habisreitinger. With a contribution by Almut Hintze.

This book contains pieces from the Gathas, poetic texts assumed to have been authored by Zarathustra, the founder of the Parsi religion. The language of these poems is an early stage of Avestan, a sister language of Old Persian from ancient Iran. In terms of their language and content, the interpretation of the Gathas poses numerous difficulties. The important Avesta researcher Karl Hoffmann (1915–1996) compiled a collection of relatively simple texts, together with his own translations, to use in his teaching. This collection is now being published from his literary estate, supplemented by various additions such as a contribution by Prof. Almut Hintze (London) on the Gathas as well as a complete vocabulary.

Bernhard Forssman is a retired Professor of Comparative Indo-European Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research specialises in Greek, Latin, Vedic Sanskrit and Old Iranian. 

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Frontmatter
I-IV
Inhaltsverzeichnis
V-VI
Bernhard Forssman
Vorwort
VII-VIII
Almut Hintze
Die Gathas des Zarathustra.
IX-XIII
Abkürzungen
XIV-XV
Karl Hoffmann
Gatha-Stücke: Text; Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen.
1-28
Bernhard Forssman
Übersicht über die Metrik der Gatha-Stücke.
29-39
Bernhard Forssman
Vokabular zu den Gatha-Stücken, mit Anmerkungen von Karl Hoffmann.
41-98
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