Eduard Glaser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduard Glaser

Austrian archaeologist

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1855

Place of Birth: Podbořanský Rohozec, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 07-May-1908

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist, explorer

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Eduard Glaser (15 March 1855 – 7 May 1908) was an Austrian Arabist and archaeologist.
He was one of the first Europeans to explore South Arabia.
He collected thousands of inscriptions in Yemen that are today held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. Of the travellers to the Orient in the 19th century, Eduard Glaser is considered the most important scholar to have studied Yemen.
He contributed to the advancement of historical and cultural research, revealed its ancient history and documented its written and oral traditions.
Yemen fascinated him, incited his imagination, beginning with his first visit to the country (1882-1884).
He returned there on three other occasions (1885-1886, 1887-1888, and 1892-1894).
In Yemen, Glaser disguised himself as a Muslim with the assumed name of Faqih Hussein bin Abdallah el Biraki Essajah, meaning, "the scholar Hussein bin Abdallah from Prague."