Adolf Leo Oppenheim

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

Life

Oppenheim received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1933 and then worked there as a librarian and assistant at the University's Oriental Institute. As a Jew he was released in 1938 and emigrated to the USA via France in 1941. Initially, he worked in New York and Philadelphia. From 1947 he worked for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , from 1949 as Assistant Professor, 1950 as Associate Professor, from 1954 as Professor; In 1973 he retired. Since 1971 he has been a corresponding member of the British Academy . In 1950 he became co-editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary , 1955 its editor-in-chief.

Publications (selection)

• Investigations into Babylonian tenancy law , Vienna 1936 (= dissertation)
• Catalog 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 A. Leo Oppenheim , ed. by Erica u. Johannes Renger, Chicago 1974 (list of publications p. F6-F13)

literature

• Robert D. Biggs, JA Brinkman (Eds.): From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Studies Presented to A. Leo Oppenheim. Chicago 1964
• Hans Erich Hirsch, in: Archive for Orient Research 25, 1974–77, pp. 347–349
• Eerle Leichty, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 95, 1975, pp. 369-370
• Hermann Hunger :  Oppenheim, Adolf Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 567 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Leo Oppenheim in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 13, 2020 .