Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt

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Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt (born March 11, 1861 in Hamburg , † July 24, 1938 in Innsbruck ) was a German ancient orientalist and ancient historian .

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Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann was the son of the lawyer and translator Emil Lehmann (1823–1887) and the merchant's daughter Amalie Leo (1837–1906).

After studying law and oriental studies in Heidelberg, Leipzig, Göttingen and Baltimore, Lehmann-Haupt received his doctorate in law in Göttingen in 1883, and in 1886 in Berlin under Friedrich Delitzsch 's doctorate in philosophy. In 1887/88 he worked as an employee ( Amanuensis ) in the Egyptian department of the Berlin museums and qualified as a professor in Berlin in 1893 with Delitzsch and Otto Hirschfeld for ancient history. From 1898 to 1899 he undertook a research trip to northeast Turkey and Armenia , where he discovered a number of Urartian inscriptions and made copies. In 1901 he became an unpaid associate professor for antiquity research in Berlin. In 1911 he was appointed Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool and in 1913/14 he was the professor of ancient history at Oxford University .

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Lehmann-Haupt returned to Germany and taught at the University of Greifswald from October of that year . In 1915 he was appointed full professor of ancient history at the newly founded University of Constantinople . Shortly before the end of the war, he moved to Innsbruck on September 11, 1918 , where he held the professorship for Ancient History until his retirement in 1932 and remained an honorary professor until 1935.

Since 1901 he was married to Therese Lehmann-Haupt (* 1864, † 1938), daughter of Otto Haupt , a school principal in Stettin. She worked as a writer. Since 1905 he had the double name Lehmann-Haupt . The marriage resulted in two children, the book scholar Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (1903–1992) and the actress Miriam Lehmann-Haupt .

Lehmann-Haupt was the first editor of the Klio magazine from 1901 . Contributions to ancient history , which he edited until 1936. His main research focus was the Urartians - however, he preferred the name Chalder. He presented numerous inscriptions for the first time (e.g. the inscription of Edremit ) and published a corpus of Urartian inscriptions.

Fonts

  • Shamash-shum-úkīn, King of Babylonia, 668–648 BC Chr .: Inscribed material about the beginning of his reign (= Assyriological Library 8). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1892.
  • The ancient Babylonian system of measures and weights as the basis of the ancient systems of weights, coins and measures. Brill, Leiden 1893.
  • Two main problems of ancient oriental chronology and their solution. Pfeiffer, Leipzig 1898.
  • Babylonia's cultural mission then and now: A word of distraction and clarification on the Babel-Bible dispute. Dieterich, Leipzig 1903.
  • Materials on the oldest history of Armenia and Mesopotamia. Weidmann, Berlin 1907.
  • Outline of Greek History. 1910.
  • Armenia then and now, travel and research (with the support of the Royal Prussian Ministry of Culture). Behr, Berlin 1910ff.
  • The fortunes of Judea and Israel in the context of world history (= religious history folk books for the German Christian present II, 1.6). Mohr, Tübingen 1911.
  • The Chaldic cuneiform inscription from Kaissaran . Huschardzan Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mechitharist Congregation in Vienna. Vienna, 1911, 254–257.
  • Israel: its development in the context of world history. JCB Mohr (P. Siebeck), Tübingen 1911.
  • Semiramis and Sammuramat. Klio - Contributions to Ancient History 15.3 / 4, 1918.
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum, published in conjunction with Felix Bagel and Fritz Schachermeyr , Berlin and Leipzig 1935. Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co ( online )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Inscription 64 at Harutjunjan
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Ferdinand Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1938
Place of death innsbruck