Matthew Stolper

Matthew Wolfgang Stolper (* 1944 ) is an American Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Career

Matthew W. Stolper gained in 1965 a B. A. at Harvard College in 1967 and an M. A. at the Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Literatures from the University of Michigan. In 1974 he received his doctorate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan with a dissertation on the Murasu Archive from Nippur.

Was stumbling 1975-1980 Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. From 1980 to 1986 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Since 1987 he is Full Professor of Assyriology there. Stolper has held visiting professorships at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen and at the Collège de France ( Paris).

Since 1980 he has been involved in the Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Currently, he is particularly concerned with the development of the Elamite texts of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, which were excavated in 1933 by an excavation mission of the Oriental Institute.

Publications

  • Texts from Tall- i Malyan I. Elamite Administrative Texts (1972-1974) ( Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund 6), Philadelphia 1984.
  • With Elizabeth Carter: Elam. Surveys of Political History and Archaeology ( University of California Publications. Near Eastern Series 25 ), Berkeley, 1984.
  • Entrepreneurs and Empire. The Murasu archives, the Murasu Firm, and Persian Rule in Babylonia ( uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut te Istanbul Historical- archaeological 54), Leiden 1985.
  • Late Achaemenid, Early Macedonian and Early Seleucid Records of Deposit and Related Texts ( Supplement agli Annali Universitario Orientale di Napoli dell'Istituto 77 ), Naples 1995.
  • With Veysel Donbaz: Istanbul Murasu text ( uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut te Istanbul Historical- archaeological 79), Leiden 1997.
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