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unusual facts about Assyriologist



A. Leo Oppenheim

A(dolph) Leo Oppenheim (7 June, 1904 - 21 July, 1974), one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of his generation was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute 1955-1974 and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

Abraham Sachs

In 1952 received a Rockefeller Foundation travel grant to study Babylonian astronomical diaries in the British Museum, where he had access to the text stocked by the pioneer British assyriologist Theophilus Pinches between 1895 and 1900.

Bruno Meissner

Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868 Graudenz - 13 March 1947 Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.

Forrer

Emil Forrer (1894–1986), Swiss Assyriologist and Hittitologist

Franz Kugler

Franz Xaver Kugler, (1862 – 1929), professor of mathematics, chemist, assyriologist, and Jesuit priest

Gutian language

However, in the late 19th-century, Assyriologist Julius Oppert sought to connect the Gutians of remote antiquity with the later Gutones (Goths), whom Ptolemy in 150 AD had known as the Guti, a tribe of Scandia.

Isaac Hollister Hall

Following the scanty clues given by George Smith and Samuel Birch, and working on the data furnished by the di Cesnola collection, he succeeded about 1874 in deciphering an entire Cypriote inscription, and in establishing the Hellenic character of the dialect and the syllabic nature of the script.

Jacob Klein

Jacob Klein (Assyriologist) (born 1934), Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and the Bible at Bar-Ilan University and a member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Jean Aylwin

On 13 December 1913, Aylwin married Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Rawlinson, son of Sir Henry Rawlinson, the famed Assyriologist.

Killyleagh

Reverend Edward Hincks, a renowned Assyriologist and Egyptologist, was appointed Church of Ireland rector of Killyleagh in 1825, an office he was to hold for the remaining forty-one years of his life.

Lenormant

François Lenormant (1837–1883), French assyriologist and archaeologist

Otto E. Neugebauer

Jointly with the American Assyriologist Abraham Sachs, he published Mathematical Cuneiform Texts in 1945, and this has remained a standard English-language work on Babylonian mathematics.

Steven Langdon

:For the British Assyriologist, see Stephen Herbert Langdon.

The Greatness That Was Babylon

The greatness that was Babylon (1968) is a book by Assyriologist H. W. F. Saggs.

The Might That Was Assyria

The Might That Was Assyria (1984; ISBN 0-283-98961-0) is written by Assyriologist H. W. F. Saggs.

Tiglath-Pileser I

According to Georges Roux, Tiglath-Pileser was "one of the two or three great Assyrian monarchs since the days of Shamshi-Adad I".


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