Matthew W. Stolper
Matthew Wolfgang Stolper (born March 1, 1944 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American ancient orientalist. He is Professor of Assyriology and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
Life
Matthew W. Stolper received a BA from Harvard College in 1965 and an MA from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in 1967 . In 1974 he received his doctorate from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan with a thesis on the Murašû archive from Nippur .
From 1975 to 1980, Stolper was Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. From 1980 to 1986 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago . Since 1987 he has been a full professor of Assyriology there. Stolper was visiting professor at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and at the Collège de France (Paris).
Since 1980 he has been involved in the Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago . At present he is particularly busy with the indexing of the Elamite texts of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, which were excavated in 1933 by an excavation mission of the Oriental Institute.
Stolper is the grandson of Gustav Stolper .
Fonts
- Texts from Tall-i Malyan I. Elamite Administrative Texts (1972-1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund 6), Philadelphia 1984.
- with Elizabeth Carter: Elam. Surveys of Political History and Archeology (University of California Publications. Near Eastern Series 25), Berkeley 1984.
- Entrepreneurs and Empire. The Murašû Archive, the Murašû Firm, and Persian Rule in Babylonia (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologische Instituut te Istanbul 54), Leiden 1985.
- Late Achaemenid, Early Macedonian and Early Seleucid Records of Deposit and Related Texts (Supplemento agli Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli 77), Naples 1995.
- with Veysel Donbaz: Istanbul Murašû Texts (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologische Instituut te Istanbul 79), Leiden 1997.
Web links
- Matthew Stolper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Matthew W. Stolper at the University of Chicago
- Representation of the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolper, Matthew W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stolper, Matthew Wolfgang (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Assyriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |