Heinrich Zimmern

Heinrich rooms ( * July 14, 1862 in Graben, † February 17, 1931 in Leipzig ) was a German orientalist and semitist and one of the founders of the Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Germany.

Rooms grew up near Karlsruhe, but then attended secondary school in Saarbrücken. Since 1881 to 1883 he studied Protestant theology, especially Old Testament at the University of Leipzig with Franz Delitzsch. Since his second semester, he also studied Assyriology at his son Friedrich Delitzsch. In 1883 he studied for a semester at the University of Berlin Eberhard Schrader. He then studied at the University of Erlangen, where he graduated in 1885 to study theology with the Church exam. In 1885 he was in Leipzig phil with a thesis on Babylonian penitential psalms to Dr.. doctorate. In 1885 he began his vicariate in Auenheim at Kehl, he briefly interrupted mid- 1886 to work as Repetent at the theological faculty in Erlangen. In 1887, he received a position at the University Library of Strasbourg where he further studied with Theodor Nöldeke. In 1889 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg of Semitic languages ​​with a thesis on the nominal formation in Assyrian.

Since 1890 worked as a private room at the University of Halle in 1894 as an associate professor of Assyriology at the University of Leipzig in succession by Friedrich Delitzsch. In 1899 he was at the University of Breslau, again as a successor Delitzsch -scheduled associate professor of Semitic languages ​​before Professor of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Leipzig in 1900. Here reasoned as such the Leipzig Institute Semitic. In 1929 he became Professor Emeritus.

Heinrich rooms was the first German orientalist, who offered his students an introduction to the Hittite - shortly after the decipherment by Bedřich Hrozný. He also promoted particularly the later Hittitologists Johannes Friedrich and collaborated with Emil Forrer.

Publications (selection)

  • Babylonian penitential psalms ( = Assyrian library. 6). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1885.
  • Contributions to the Knowledge of the Babylonian religion. Hinrichs, Leipzig from 1896 to 1901.
  • A Comparative Grammar of the Semitic languages. Reuther and Reichard, Berlin 1898.
  • Biblical and Babylonian prehistory. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1901 ( The Ancient Orient, Volume 2, Issue 3 )
  • Babylonian hymns and prayers in selection. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1905. ( The Ancient Orient, Volume 7, Issue 3 )
  • Babylonian hymns and prayers. Second selection. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1911 ( The Ancient Orient, Volume 13, Issue 1)
  • Sumerian cult songs from the Old Babylonian period. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1912.
  • Akkadian foreign words as evidence of Babylonian culture influence. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915.
  • The Babylonian New Year. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1925 ( The Ancient Orient, Volume 25, Issue 3 )
  • Hittite laws of the State Archives of Boghazkoi. , composed by Johannes Friedrich translated by Heinrich rooms ( = The Old Orient. 23, 2). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1926.
  • Religion of the Hittites ( = atlas of images for religious history. 5). Scholl, Leipzig 1925.

For a complete list of publications see Franz Heinrich Weissbach: rooms bibliography. In: Journal of Assyriology and related fields 40 NF = 6 (1931 ), pp. 144-162.

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