Stephen H. Langdon

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Stephen H. Langdon (born May 8, 1876 in Ida Township , Michigan , † May 19, 1937 in Oxford ) was an American ancient orientalist .

Life

Langdon studied at the University of Michigan , where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1898 and a master's degree in 1899. He then continued his studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York until 1903 and then at Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1904. After a two-year research stay in France, he moved to Jesus College in Oxford , where he taught Assyriology. In 1919 he followed Archibald Sayce to his chair in Assyrology, after he had already received British citizenship in 1913. In 1931 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Building inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian empire . Leroux, Paris 1905.
  • Lectures on Babylonia and Palestine . Geuthner, Paris 1906.
  • A chapter from the Babylonian books of private devotion. Babyloniaca; études de philologie Assyro-Babylonienne . Geuthner, Paris 1908.
  • Sumerian and Babylonian psalms . Geuthner, Paris 1909.
  • A Sumerian grammar and chrestomathy . Geuthner, Paris 1911.
  • Tammuz and Ishtar, a monograph upon Babylonian religion and theology containing extensive extracts from the Tammuz liturgies and all of the Arbela oracles . Oxford 1914.
  • Babylonian penitential psalms ... Oxford editions of cuneiform texts . Geuthner, Paris 1927.
  • The Venus tablets of Ammizaduga . Oxford 1928.
  • Babylonian menologies and the Semitic calendars. The Schweich lectures . London 1935.

literature

  • R. Campbell Thompson: Obituary Notices: Professor Stephen Herbert Langdon . In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . No. 4 , 1937, pp. 719-726 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Langdon, Stephen H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langdon, Stephen Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-British ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Ida Township (Michigan)
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1937
Place of death Oxford