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Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrath
Name
Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrath
Dates
28 July 1859 - 19 March 1925
Birthplace
Hohenerxleben, Germany
Specialization
Assyriology
Major works
Old Babylonian Inscriptions, Chiefly from Nippur (BE 1/1-2), Philadelhia 1893-1896 Assyriaca: Eine Nachlese auf dem Gebiete der Assyriologie, Boston/Halle 1894 Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur (BE 9), Philadelphia 1898 (with A.T. Clay) Die Ausgrabungen der Universität von Pennsylvania im Bêl-Tempel zu Nippur, Leipzig 1903 Explorations in Bible Land during the Nineteenth Century, Philadelphia 1903 Mathematical, Metrological and Chronological Tablets (BE 20/1), Philadelphia 1906 The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur, Philadelphia 1910 Bibliography in: R. Borger, HKL 1 (1967) 190-194
click here for MPIWG's Hilprecht Diary of the 4th Expedition
Remarks
Ph.D. in Assyriology under F. Delitzsch, University of Leipzig, 1883 Professor of Assyriology and comparative Semitic philology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1911 Curator of the Babylonian section of the University Museum, 1887-1911 Director of the Nippur excavations, 1895-1911 Biography in: Who was who in America 1 (1943) 566, Dictionary of American Biography 9 (1932) 58-59, American National Biography 10 (1999) 825-827 (B.R. Foster)
Obituaries
ZA 36 (1925) 309-310 (H. Zimmern) JBL 45 (1926) iii-iv
Festschrift
Hilprecht Anniversary Volume, Leipzig 1909
