Hoffmann K., Hennig W.B., Bailey H.W., Morgenstierne G., Lentz W. (eds.) Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abschnitt Linguistik

Collection of Articles. — Leiden; Köln, Brill, 1958. — 244 p.A summary of the major results of his own works on Middle Iranian, which is as indispensable today as it was five decades ago, was published by Henning in his detailed article “Mitteliranisch” (1958, pp. 20-130), a classical contribution to the series Handbuch der Orientalistik. This work deserves a place of honor among all descriptions of languages. The fact that here the characterization of the (Aramaic) script as “script as a symbol of the unity of Middle Iranian” (Henning, 1958, p. 21) had already lost some of its validity by the time the work was published was partly due to Henning’s own research into the Chorasmian and Bactrian scripts.