Daniel David Luckenbill

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Daniel David Luckenbill (born June 21, 1881 in Hamburg , Berks County , Pennsylvania , † June 5, 1927 in London ) was an American ancient orientalist .

education

Luckenbill, son of Reverend BF Luckenbill, minister of the Reformed Church in the United States , spent his youth in Berks County. From 1899 he studied Semitic languages first at the University of Pennsylvania , AB until 1903, then in 1905 in Berlin Egyptology with Adolf Erman at the Friedrich Wilhelm University and enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1906 . Here he studied Egyptology with James Henry Breasted and Assyriology with William Rainey Harper . His doctoral thesis, entitled A Study of the temple documents from the Cassite period , was accepted in 1907. From then on, Assyriology was his life's work.

Act

From 1909 to 1923 he took on teaching activities and in 1923 was Professor of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He was an annual professor at the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and took part in their excavations in Palestine from 1908 to 1909. He was also later a member of the American scientific excavation expedition initiated by the Chicago Oriental Institute in the Middle East from 1919 to 1920.

Luckenbill worked at the Oriental Institute of Chicago founded by his mentor Breasted in 1919. At the Oriental Institute, he was the curator of the Assyrian Collections of the Haskell Oriental Museum . His student Leroy Waterman noted in his obituary that his actual magnum opus was Luckenbill's work on the card catalog for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD), a dictionary of the Akkadian language , which was also published decades later and which was also initiated by Breasted in 1921 and for the latter Head Luckenbill had been appointed. At the time of his death over 500,000 pieces of paper had already been created and still contained many unpublished cuneiform texts that he had translated.

In total, he published around 34 monographic works and numerous articles in specialist journals. He was also the advisory editor of the Journal of Religion and co-editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures , which published many of his contributions. He was twice elected regional president (Mid-West Branch) of the American Oriental Society .

In 1924 his work The Annals of Sennacherib was published , a translation of the cuneiform text of the “Chicago Prism”, one of the few remaining Sanherib prisms . He is also the author of the two-volume work Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia . Breasted published the Inscriptions from Adab posthumously with Luckenbill's numerous hand drawings of clay tablets.

Luckenbill was married to Florence Parker since 1914. He died of typhus in London in 1927 .

Publications

A complete bibliography of his writings up to 1927 can be found at: John A. Maynard: In Memoriam: A Bibliography of DD Luckenbill. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 45, 1929, pp. 90-93. ( JSTOR 528853 )

  • A Study of the Temple Documents from the Cassite Period. The Chicago University Press, Chicago 1907. Thesis PhD ( digitized, Internet Archive )
  • Annals of Sennacherib . The Chicago University Press, Chicago 1924. Reprint 2005. ( Digital copy of the Oriental Institute OIP2 ; PDF; 6.3 MB).
  • Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia. The Chicago University Press, Chicago 1926/1927. Multiple reprints.
    • Vol. 1 Historical records of Assyria: from the earliest times to Sargon.
    • Vol. 2 Historical records of Assyria: from Sargon to the end.
  • Inscriptions of Adab. The Chicago University Press, Chicago 1930. ( Digitized by the Oriental Institute OIP14 ; PDF; 3.9 MB).

Posts:

  • The Temples of Babylonia and Assyria . In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 24/4 1908, pp. 291–322, (also: special print). ( JSTOR 527646 ).
  • Inscriptions of Early Assyrian Rulers. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 28/3, 1912, pp. 153-203. ( JSTOR 528609 ).
  • Hittite Treaties and Letters. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 37/3, 1921, pp. 161-211. ( JSTOR 528149 ).
  • Biblical standards of history, chronology, and statistics. In: The Truth about the Bible. American Institute of Sacred Literature, Chicago 1923.

literature

  • Leroy Waterman: Daniel David Luckenbill, 1881-1927: An Appreciation. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 44, 1927, pp. 1-5. (Obituary, English, JSTOR 528422 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luckenbill, Thesis, 1907, p. 50 (Vita)
  2. ^ David Shavit: The United States in the Middle East. A Historical Dictionary. New York 1988, p. 216. (Accessed via WBIS, accessed February 25, 2012).
  3. ^ James Henry Breasted: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: A Beginning and a Program. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 38, 1922, pp. 288-305. English, accessed February 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ John M. Maynard: In Memoriam. In: The American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures. 45, 1929, p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Luckenbill, Daniel David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckenbill, DD (author name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg (Pennsylvania) , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1927
Place of death London