Education
He studied oriental languages at the Universities of Kiel and Leipzig, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy at Halle in 1867.
Orientalist translator university professor
He studied oriental languages at the Universities of Kiel and Leipzig, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy at Halle in 1867.
Sachau became a professor extraordinary of Semitic philology (1869) and a full professor (1872) at the University of Vienna, and in 1876, a professor at the University of Berlin, where he was appointed director of the new Seminar of Oriental languages (1887). He travelled to the Near East on several occasions (see his book Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien, published 1883). He is especially noteworthy for his work on Syriac and other Aramaic dialects.
He was an expert on Persian polymath First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Biruni and wrote a translation of Kitab ta"rikh al-Hind, First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Biruni"s encyclopedic work on India.
While a student at Kiel, he became part of the fraternity Teutonia Kiel (1864). He worked as a consultant in the planning and construction of the Baghdad Railway.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
He was a member of the Vienna and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London and the American Oriental Society.