Eugen Mittwoch Mittwoch was the leading orientalist in Germany, and the founder of a more politically oriented, modern science of Middle East Studies, in contrast to the traditional philologic, apolitical approach very much influenced by Goethe. In 1924, Mittwoch stayed in Jerusalem, where he participated in the founding of a Department for Semitic Studies at Hebrew University. Since he was the leading specialist on Ethiopian languages world-wide, Mittwoch did not lose his academic position in 1933 immediately like almost all his Jewish colleagues in Germany did at that time. This had to do with a special intervention by Mussolini with Hitler on
Determination of the day of the week January 1, 2000. (year − 1 for January) formula_3 formula_4 Note: The first is only for a 00 leap year and the second is for any 00 years. The term mod 7 gives the values of months: The term mod 7 gives the values of years: The term mod 7 gives the values of centuries: Now from the general formula: formula_5; January 1, 2000 can be recalculated as follows: formula_6 formula_7 Kraitchik proposed two methods for calculating the day of the week. One is a graphical method. The other uses a formula that he credits to Gauss on p. 110: