Eduard Mahler

Eduard Mahler (Hungarian: Mahler Ede, September 28, 1857, in Cífer, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire – June 29, 1945, in Újpest) was a Hungarian-Austrian astronomer, Orientalist, and natural scientist.

On June 1, 1885, he was an appointed an assistant in the royal Austrian Institute of Weights and Measures.

In early life, he paid considerable attention to ancient Oriental history, Assyriology, and Egyptology, 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 of Sweden and Norway; and in 1898 he became an official at the Hungarian National Museum.

Mahler has published: besides many papers in Hungarian as well as contributions to various German scientific journals, as: