A. Leo Oppenheim (1904–1974)
Autore di L'antica Mesopotamia: ritratto di una civiltà.
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Fonte dell'immagine: A. Leo Oppenheim [credit: Memim Encyclopedia]
Opere di A. Leo Oppenheim
Letters from Mesopotamia: official business, and private letters on clay tablets from two millennia (1967) 24 copie
The interpretation of dreams in the ancient Near East, with a translation of an Assyrian dream-book (1956) 13 copie
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- Nome legale
- Oppenheim, Adolf Leo
- Altri nomi
- Oppenheim, Adolph Leo
- Data di nascita
- 1904-06-07
- Data di morte
- 1974-07-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Austria (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Vienna, Austria
- Luogo di morte
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Vienna (PhD)
- Attività lavorative
- Professor of Oriental Studies
editor
Assyriologist
dictionary editor
translator - Relazioni
- Reiner, Erica (colleague)
- Organizzazioni
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago - Breve biografia
- Professor Oppenheim was one of the most prominent scholars of ancient Mesopotamia (Assyriology) of his generation. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled to the USA with his wife to escape the Nazis. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as a research assistant in 1947, and rose to become John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies. He was an editor with Erica Reiner, then editor-in-chief, of the famed multi-volume Chicago Assyrian Dictionary from 1952 until his death. His other distinguished works included Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (1964) and Assyriology -- Why and How?
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Revised Edition of the most distinguished and battle-hardened presentation of the civilization of Babylonia and Assyria. Oppenheim was unusually receptive to anthropological terms and influences -- particularly of Frank Boas and Claude Levi-Strauss.
With extensive Index, Notes, Bibliographical Notes, and very adequate Glossary and Maps.
With extensive Index, Notes, Bibliographical Notes, and very adequate Glossary and Maps.
One of the first social histories of mesopotamia.
For some reason this book occasionally shows up under the author "Erica Reiner"
For some reason this book occasionally shows up under the author "Erica Reiner"
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