A. Leo Oppenheim (1904–1974)
Author of Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
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Works by A. Leo Oppenheim
Associated Works
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (1950) — Contributor — 369 copies, 1 review
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- Legal name
- Oppenheim, Adolf Leo
- Other names
- Oppenheim, Adolph Leo
- Birthdate
- 1904-06-07
- Date of death
- 1974-07-21
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Vienna (PhD)
- Occupations
- Professor of Oriental Studies
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Assyriologist
dictionary editor
translator - Organizations
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago - Relationships
- Reiner, Erica (colleague)
- Short biography
- Professor Oppenheim was one of the most prominent scholars of ancient Mesopotamia (Assyriology) of his generation. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled to the USA with his wife to escape the Nazis. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as a research assistant in 1947, and rose to become John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies. He was an editor with Erica Reiner, then editor-in-chief, of the famed multi-volume Chicago Assyrian Dictionary from 1952 until his death. His other distinguished works included Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (1964) and Assyriology -- Why and How?
- Nationality
- Austria (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Place of death
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Berkeley, California, USA
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Primarily a cultural history of Mesopotamian civilization, than a political history.
Easily understood inroduction for interested lay person.
Easily understood inroduction for interested lay person.
Revised Edition of the most distinguished and battle-hardened presentation of the civilization of Babylonia and Assyria. Oppenheim was unusually receptive to anthropological terms and influences -- particularly of Frank Boas and Claude Levi-Strauss.
With extensive Index, Notes, Bibliographical Notes, and very adequate Glossary and Maps.
With extensive Index, Notes, Bibliographical Notes, and very adequate Glossary and Maps.
One of the first social histories of mesopotamia.
For some reason this book occasionally shows up under the author "Erica Reiner"
For some reason this book occasionally shows up under the author "Erica Reiner"
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