Erich Ebeling (ancient orientalist)
Erich Robert Friedrich Ebeling (born November 21, 1886 in Berlin , † October 28, 1955 in West Berlin ) was a German Assyriologist .
life and work
In 1909 Ebeling received his doctorate in Berlin on the verb of the El Amarna letters . From 1920 he was a private lecturer, from 1924 associate professor for oriental philology at the University of Berlin . Ebeling was one of the editors of the text collection of ancient Near Eastern texts on the Old Testament and the founder of the large-scale work Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie, which is still in the making today . Since 1953 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
literature
- Ernst Weidner : Ebeling, Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 220 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Ebeling in the catalog of the German National Library
- On the history of the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Berlin)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Erich Ebeling (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 29, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebeling, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ebeling, Erich Robert Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Assyriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1955 |
| Place of death | West Berlin |