A. Leo Oppenheim

Adolf Leo Oppenheim ( born June 7, 1904 in Vienna, † 21 July 1974 in Berkeley ) was an Austrian- American Assyriologist.

Life

Oppenheim in 1933 received his doctorate at the University of Vienna, where he was then working as a librarian and assistant professor at the Oriental Institute of the University. As a Jew, he was released in 1938 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1941 over France. Initially he worked in New York and Philadelphia. Since 1947 he worked for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, since 1949 as an assistant professor, in 1950 as an associate professor since 1954 as a professor; In 1973 he became Professor Emeritus. In 1950 he was co-editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, 1955 the responsible editor.

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the Babylonian tenancy, Vienna 1936 ( = dissertation)
  • Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets of the Wilberforce Eames Babylonian Collection, New Haven 1948
  • The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East, Philadelphia 1956
  • Ancient Mesopotamia. Portrait of a Dead Civilization, Chicago / London 1964
  • Letters from Mesopotamia, Chicago / London 1967
  • Essays on Mesopotamian Civilization. Selected Papers of Oppenheim, A. Leo, ed. Erica and John Renger, Chicago, 1974 ( list of publications p F6 -F13 )
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