Ferdowsi millennial celebration in Berlin

The thousand-year celebration of Ferdowsi's birthday was held in Berlin on 27 September 1934 under the administration of the German Ministry of Science, Education and Culture (Reichserziehungsministerium), on the occasion of millenary celebration of Ferdowsi, announced by the government of Iran at the beginning of that year.

Then Ministerialdirektor Prof. Dr. Theodor Vahlen as the Deputy of Reichserziehungsminister Dr. Bernhard Rust, made a speech.

Dr. Schaeder in his speech[2] praised Ferdowsi for his tremendous work to revive the Persian language against all odds and the pressure of foreign cultures.

He said the Shahnameh had a great impact on the German orientalists and inspired many scholars to conduct exploratory researches about Ferdowsi.

The other credible translation of The Shahnameh belonged to the German poet and historian of literature, Adolf Friedrich von Schack whose version was published in 1851.