Jussi Aro
Jussi Taneli Aro (born June 5, 1928 in Lappo , † March 11, 1983 in Espoo ) was a Finnish linguist ( Assyriologist ).
Aro was born into a family of small farmers. Already in his childhood he was noticed by his interest in foreign languages. Jussi Aro was Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Helsinki since 1965. His research covers the areas of Babylonia , Semitic languages and literature. With Armas Salonen he translated the Koran into Finnish in 1957 . In 1973 he received an honorary doctorate in theology.
Web links
- Entry ( memento of August 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
literature
- Studies in Middle Babylonian grammar , Helsingfors, 1955
- Glossary of the Middle Babylonian Letters , Helsingfors, 1957
- The Akkadian infinitive constructions in Studia Orientalia 26, 1961
- Prepositional connections as determinations of the noun in Akkadian in Orientalia ( Nova series ) 32, pp. 395–406, 1963
- The vocalization of the basic stem in the Semitic verb , Helsingfors, 1964
- Middle Babylonian clothing texts from the Hilprecht Collection Jena , Berlin, 1970
- Aabrahamin perilliset (1970)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aro, Jussi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aro, Jussi Taneli (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish linguist (Assyriologist) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lappo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1983 |
| Place of death | Espoo |