Among her teachers were two of the period's most eminent scholars of Hittite culture and history, Hans Gustav Güterbock and Benno Landsberger, both Hitler-era German-Jewish refugees, who spent World War II as professors in Turkey.
Benno Ohnesorg | Benno Landsberger | Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. | Marc Benno | Benno Straucher | Benno Schmidt | Benno II of Osnabrück | Benno Besson |
As a student of Benno Landsberger and Sidney Smith, his knowledge was grounded in immediate knowledge and experience that went back to the earliest years of Assyriology.
The reading of the first element in his name is uncertain, as Ignace Gelb and Benno Landsberger originally proposed BAR, giving Kidin-Ninua, "Under the protection of Nineveh," while Arno Poebel read the name as beginning with ŠÚ- and Weidner read it as ŠI- on another fragmentary copy of the kinglist.