Liane Jakob-Rost

Liane Jakob-Rost (* 1928 in Berlin ) is a German ancient orientalist .

Liane Jakob-Rost studied ancient oriental languages at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since 1949 she worked at the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, since her doctorate in 1952 as a research assistant. Since 1958 she has been the custodian of the collection and in this position played a key role in the reintegration of the looted art that was returning from the Soviet Union at the time . Between 1978 and 1990 she was director of the museum, succeeding Gerhard Rudolf Meyer . In 1990 she retired, her successor was Evelyn Klengel-Brandt .

Jakob-Rost's main focus was the processing and publication of the cuneiform documents from the museum's holdings. She gave lectures at home and abroad, where she was also involved in many exhibitions. She was involved in excavations in Bulgaria and Iraq .

Fonts

• The deciphering of the cuneiform script. On the 200th birthday of GF Grotefend , Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1975
• The song of Ullikummi. Seals of the Hittites , Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1977
• with Joachim Marzahn : Babylon , Staatliche Museen, Berlin 1983
• with Joachim Marzahn: Assyrian royal inscriptions on bricks from Assur , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985
• The Vorderasiatisches Museum , von Zabern, Mainz 1992 ISBN 3-8053-1188-5
• with Iris Gerlach : The stamp seals in the Vorderasiatisches Museum , von Zabern, Mainz 1997 ISBN 3-8053-2029-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Liane Jakob-Rost in the catalog of the German National Library