Benno Landsberger

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Benno Landsberger (born April 21, 1890 in Friedek , Austrian Silesia , † April 26, 1968 in Chicago ) was one of the most important German Assyriologists .

Life

Landsberger studied oriental studies in Leipzig since 1908 , his teachers included August Fischer ( Arabic studies ) and Heinrich Zimmer ( Assyriology ). In 1913 he received his doctorate at the Ancient Near Eastern Institute in Leipzig. In 1914 Landsberger joined the Austrian army. He served on the Eastern Front , was seriously wounded in 1916 and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit. After the war , Landsberger completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1920 and was appointed associate professor in 1926. In 1928 he was appointed to a full professorship in Marburg as the successor of Peter Jensen , but in 1929 he returned to Leipzig as the successor to Heinrich Zimmer. In addition to Landsberger, Friedrich-Wilhelm Weißbach also worked in Leipzig . Adam Falkenstein , Hans Gustav Güterbock , Fritz Rudolf Kraus and Wolfram von Soden studied at the leading orientalist institute .

Dismissed after the law to restore civil service in 1935, Landsberger accepted a position at Ankara University , where, at the instigation of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a new humanities faculty with a historical focus was built. Güterbock and Kraus also went into exile in Turkey . Landsberger helped set up the Faculty of Languages , History and Geography (Dil ve Tarih-Cografya Fakäne) in Ankara .

In 1948 he was appointed to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , where he worked until 1955. During this time, he took American citizenship .

In 1959 he became a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society . The British Academy he belonged since 1961 as a corresponding member.

Works

  • The cultic calendar of the Babylonians and Assyrians: I. The old Babylonian local calendar , Leipzig 1914 (dissertation) (Leipziger Semitistische Studien. Vol. 6, H. 1. 1915)
  • Assyrian trading colonies in Asia Minor from the third millennium , Leipzig 1925 (Der Alte Orient, Vol. 24. H. 4)
  • The fauna of ancient Mesopotamia according to the 14th panel of the series Har-ra = Hubullu , Hirzel, Leipzig 1934 (Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Vol. 42, No. 6)
  • The series ana ittisu , Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, Rome 1937 (Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon, Vol. 1)
  • Sam'al. Karatepe herabelerinin keşfi ile ilgili araştirmalar; Birinci kisim , Türk tarih Kurum basimevi, Ankara 1948 (Türk tarih Kurumu Yayinlarindan, no 16 a)
  • The date Palm and its by-products , 1967
  • Obituary for Heinrich Zimmer. In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 40, 1932, pp. 133-143
  • For the 100th anniversary of Heinrich Zimmer's birthday. In: Researches and Advances. Nachrichtenblatt der Deutschen Wissenschaft und Technik 36, 1962, pp. 219–220
  • August Fischer on his 70th birthday, research and progress 11, 1935, pp. 62–63.

literature

  • Daniel A. Foxvog, Anne Draffkorn Kilmer: Benno Landsberger's Lexicographical Contributions. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies. Vol. 27, No. 1, Jan. 1975, ISSN  0022-0256 , pp. 3-64.
  • Ronald Lambrecht: Political dismissals in the Nazi era. Forty-four biographical sketches by professors at the University of Leipzig (= contributions to Leipzig university and science history. Vol. 11). Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02397-5 , pp. 124–127.
  • Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945. Entry on Benno Landsberger (accessed: April 15, 2018)
  • Joachim Oelsner: The ancient orientalist Benno Landsberger. Science transfer Leipzig - Chicago via Ankara. In: Stephan Wendehorst (ed.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig (= Leipzig contributions to Jewish history and culture. Vol. 4). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86583-106-0 , pp. 269-285.
  • Wolfram von Soden:  Landsberger, Benno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 516 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Luděk Vacín: The unknown Benno Landsberger. Biographical sketch of an Assyriological "Altmeister's" development, exile, and personal life , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2018 (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien; 10), ISBN 978-3-447-11124-9 .

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Member History: Benno Landsberger. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Science journal, which appeared from 1925 to 1967 (with interruptions), on behalf of various scientific academies. Originally published by Karl Kerkhof (1877–1945)
personal data
SURNAME Landsberger, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Assyriologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedek , Austrian Silesia , today the Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1968
Place of death Chicago