Paul Haupt (ancient orientalist)

Hermann Hugo Paul Haupt (born November 25, 1858 in Görlitz , † December 15, 1926 in Baltimore ) was a German-American Assyriologist and Bible scholar.

Life

Haupt graduated from grammar school in Görlitz, then studied oriental languages, classical philology and comparative linguistics in Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1878 under Friedrich Delitzsch . After a long stay in London , he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in Assyriology in Göttingen and was appointed associate professor there in 1883, but went to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the same year . From 1888 he was also the Honorary Curator of Oriental Antiquities at the United States National Museum in Washington . In 1902 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Haupt introduced the principle of young grammarians into Semitic language research and discovered a new Sumerian dialect in 1880 .

Publications

• (Ed.): Hebriter
• The Sumerian family laws. Leipzig 1879.
• The cuneiform report of the Flood. 1881.
• with Friedrich Delitzsch : Assyriological Library. Leipzig 1881ff.
• Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform texts. 4 parts. 1881/1882. Photomechanical reprint: Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1974.
• The Akkadian language. Berlin 1883.
• Contributions to the Assyriological Phonology. Goettingen 1883.
• The Babylonian Nimrodepos. Leipzig 1884, 1891.
• The Assyrian E-vowel. Baltimore 1887.
• Prolegomena to a comparative Assyrian grammar. New Haven 1888.
• About the settlement of Russian Jews in the Euphrates and Tigris regions, a proposal. Friedenwald, Baltimore 1892.
• (Ed.): The Sacred Books of the Old Testament. Leipzig 1893ff. (The so-called Polychrome Bible. )
• The book of Ecclesiastes. Boston 1894.

literature

• Heinrich Zimmer : Obituary , In: Journal for Assyriology and related areas , Volume 37 (1927) ULB Halle
• Cyrus Adler, Aaron Ember (Ed.): Oriental Studies. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore; Hinrichs, Leipzig 1926. (Festschrift, also contains Haupt's bibliography)
• Cyrus Adler: Paul Haupt. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. Volume 47, 1927, pp. 1-2.
• William F. Albright:  Haupt, Hermann Hugo Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 102 f. ( Digitized version ).
• R. Borger: Haupt, Paul , in: Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology . , 4th volume. De Gruyter, Berlin 1975, p. 175 ( preview on Google Books )

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Haupt  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Paul Haupt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Paul Haupt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: Paul Haupt. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 24, 2018 .