Otto Schröder (Assyriologist)

Otto Schröder (born July 8, 1887 in Berlin ; † February 2, 1928 there ) was a German ancient orientalist . His main focus was Assyriology .

life and work

Otto Schröder studied oriental linguistics at the University of Berlin . In addition to the Old Testament students Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Baudissin and Hugo Gressmann , he was particularly influenced by the Old Orientalists Hugo Winckler and Friedrich Delitzsch , who primarily dealt with the Assyrian language.

After graduating, Schröder worked as a philological curator at the Middle East Department of the Royal Prussian Museums in Berlin. From 1913 he was employed as a scientific assistant at the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In this capacity he oversaw the official publications of the Museum's Near Eastern Department and the German Orient Society . Schröder published several collections of cuneiform documents and numerous individual studies in specialist journals. He was also one of the first employees of the Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology(RlA). In 1922 he resigned from the academy. He died at the age of 40.

Fonts (selection)

• The clay tablets of El-Amarna. Part 1, Half 1: Texts 1–82 . Leipzig 1914. Reprint Osnabrück 1973
• The clay tablets of El-Amarna. Part 1, Half 2: Texts 83–189 . Leipzig 1915. Reprint Osnabrück 1973
• The clay tablets of El-Amarna. Part 2: Texts 190–202 and a list of characters . Leipzig 1915. Reprint Osnabrück 1973
• Contracts of the Seleucid period from Warka . Leipzig 1916
• Old Babylonian letters. With lists of characters and names . Leipzig 1917
• Cuneiform texts from Assyrian historical content. Issue 2 . Leipzig 1922. Reprint Osnabrück 1970

literature

• Archive for Orient Research . Volume 4 (1927), pp. 245-246
• Journal of Assyriology and Allied Fields . Volume 38, 4 (1929), p. 274
• Johannes Renger : The History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Near Eastern Archeology in Berlin 1875-1945 . In: Willmuth Arenhövel, Christa Schreiber (Hrsg.): Berlin and antiquity: architecture, applied arts, painting, sculpture, theater and science from the 16th century to today . Berlin 1979, pp. 151–192 (on Schröder especially p. 166)
• Ludmilla Hanisch: The successors of the exegetes: German-speaking research into the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century . Wiesbaden 2003, p. 206