Kaspar K. Riemschneider

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Kaspar Klaus Riemschneider (born April 3, 1934 in Jena ; † June 5, 1976 ) was a German ancient orientalist .

After graduating from high school in Jena, Riemschneider, a son of the art historian and writer Margarete Riemschneider , studied Assyriology and Hittitology with Heinrich Otten at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Charles University in Prague with Lubor Matouš , where he received his doctorate in 1959. After protests against the crackdown on the Prague Spring , he moved from the GDR to Munich in 1971 and received a post-doctoral scholarship from the DFG . He worked on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary and died in a car accident in the United States .

In 1969 he published an Akkadian textbook . He was mainly concerned with the Hittite and especially the Omina texts .

Publications

  • as Ed .: Problems of Lexicography. Protocol volume of Section II of the conference of the Institute for Orient Research of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary from 23.-25. October 1967. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967.
  • Akkadian textbook. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1969 (6th edition 1992).
  • Babylonian natal omens in Hittite translation (= studies on the Boǧazköy texts . Volume 9). Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1970.
  • Omina, rituals and literary texts in the Hittite language, some in the old style (= cuneiform documents from Boghazköi. Volume 43). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • The Akkadian and Hittite omen texts from Boǧazköy, printed by Henning Marquardt (= Dresden Contributions to Hittitology. Volume 12). Verlag der TU Dresden, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-86005-412-0 (= habilitation thesis, with list of publications on pp. 335–337).

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SURNAME Riemschneider, Kaspar K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemschneider, Kaspar Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1976