Wilhelm Eilers (27 September 1906 in Leipzig – 3 July 1989 in Würzburg) was a German Iranist.
[1] Eilers studied music and law as well as linguistics and the cuneiform script in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Leipzig, among others.
In 1931 he received his doctorate in Leipzig on forms of society in ancient Babylonian law.
In 1937 he traveled to Iran, first in Tehran, then in Isfahan to set up a branch of the AIDR,[2] after Eilers failed to come up with a plan to set up a branch in Baghdad in Iraq due to a lack of financial support from the Führer’s office.
Die Al: Ein persisches Kindbettgespenst (Sitzungsberichte / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse).