Anton Deimel
Anton Deimel (born December 5, 1865 in Olpe , † August 7, 1954 in Rome ) was a German ancient orientalist , Jesuit and theologian .
Life
Deimel is considered to be one of the founders of Sumerology , which deals with the language, history, literature, religion and mythology and culture of the Mesopotamian people of Sumerians . He mainly dealt with economic texts from the 3rd millennium BC. Christ.
Anton Deimel had studied with Johann Strassmaier in London and also transferred (all or most of) Strassmeier's notebooks with copies of numerous ancient oriental texts to Rome.
His most important work was the Sumerian Lexicon, begun in 1925.
Works
- Anton Deimel: The inscriptions of Fara , Volume 1: List of archaic cuneiform characters ; Excavations of the German Orient Society in Fara and Abu Hatab 1; Scientific publication of the German Orient Society 4; Osnabrück: Zeller, 1970 (= Leipzig: JC Hinrichs, 1922); Online at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
literature
- Adam Falkenstein: Deimel, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 569 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Deimel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Gary D. Thompson: Biographies of Modern Historians of Ancient Occidental Astral Sciences ( Memento April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on Abraham Sachs and Johann Schaumberger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deimel, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sumerologist, theologian, Jesuit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olpe |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th August 1954 |
| Place of death | Rome |