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 where is the day of the week (counting upwards from 1 on Sunday instead of 0 in Gauss's version); and , , and are numbers depending on the day, month, century and year which are tabulated in the "Complete table: Julian and Gregorian calendars" above. Note that the numbers tabulated for y can also be described by the following equation: Where So, for example, if you want to find 'y' for the year 1987: In Zeller’s algorithm, the months are numbered from 3 for March to 14 for February. The year is assumed to begin in March; this means, for