Paul Haupt

Hermann Hugo Paul Haupt ( born November 25, 1858 in Görlitz, † December 15, 1926 in Baltimore ) was a German -American Assyriology and biblical scholars.

Main graduated in high school in Görlitz, then studied in Leipzig and Berlin Oriental languages ​​, classical philology and comparative linguistics and a doctorate in 1878 at Friedrich Delitzsch. He habilitated after a longer stay in London as a lecturer in Assyriology in Göttingen and was promoted to associate professor in 1883, but went in the same year at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Since 1888 he was also honorary curator of Oriental Antiquities in the United States National Museum in Washington.

Main introduced the principle of Neogrammarians in the Semitic language research and discovered in 1880 a new Sumerian dialect.

Publications

• (Ed.): Hebriter
• The Sumerian family laws. Leipzig, 1879.
• The cuneiform Sintfluthbericht. , 1881.
• Friedrich Delitzsch Assyriologische library. Leipzig 1881ff.
• Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform texts. 4 parts. 1881/1882. Mechanical photo reprint: Zentralantiquariat the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1974.
• The Akkadian language. Berlin 1883.
• Contributions to assyriological phonology. Göttingen 1883.
• The Babylonian Nimrod epic. Leipzig 1884, 1891.
• The Assyrian E- vowel. Baltimore 1887.
• Prolegomena to a comparative Assyrian grammar. New Haven, 1888.
• About the settlement of the Jews in russicschen Euphrates and Tigris regions, a suggestion. Friedenwald, Baltimore, 1892.
• (Ed.): The Sacred Books of the Old Testament. Leipzig 1893ff. ( The so-called Polychrome Bible. )
• The book of Ecclesiastes. Boston 1894.