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Landsberger, Benno
Name
Landsberger, Benno
Dates
21 April 1890 - 26 April 1968
Birthplace
Friedek, Germany
Specialization
Assyriology
Major works
Der kultische Kalender der Babylonier und Assyrer, Leipzig 1915 Assyrische Handelkolonien in Kleinasien aus dem dritten Jahrtausend, Leipzig 1925 Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien nach der 14. Tafel der Serie HAR.RA = hubullu, Leipzig 1934 Die Serie ana ittishu (MSL 1), Rome 1937 Sam’al. Studien zur Entdeckung der Ruinenstätte Karatepe, Ankara 1948 Die Serie Ur-e-a = nâqu (MSL 2), Rome 1951 Sa, Vok. Sa, Sb, Nachtr. zu MSL 2 (MSL 3 ), Rome 1955 Emesal Vocabulary, OB and NB Grammatical Texts, Nachtr. zu MSL 3 (MSL 4), Rome 1956 The Series HAR-ra = hubullu, Tablets I-IV/V-VII (MSL 5-6), Rome 1957-58 The Series HAR-ra = hubullu, Tablets VIII-XII (MSL 7), Rome 1959 The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia I: HAR-ra = hubullu Tablet XIII (MLS 8/1), Rome 1960 The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia II: HAR-ra = hubullu Tablets XIV and XVIII (MSL 8/2), Rome 1962 The Series HAR-ra = hubullu, Tablet XV and related texts, Addtions and Corrections to MSL 2, 3, 5, 7 (MSL 9), Rome 1967 Brief des Bischofs von Esagila an König Asarhaddon, Amsterdam 1965 The Date-Palm and its By-products (AfO Beih. 17), Graz 1967 A Reconstruction of Sumerian and Akkadian Lexical Texts (MSL 12), Rome 1969 (E. Reiner) The Series HAR-ra = hubullu Tablets XVI, XVII, XIX (MSL 10), Rome 1970 (E. Reiner) Bibliography in: JCS 4 (1950) 1-62 (F.W. Geers) JCS 26 (1974) 183-194 (A.D. Kilmer - J. Renger) JCS 27 (1975) 3-129 (A.D. Kilmer - D. Foxvog)
Remarks
Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1920 (H. Zimmern) Professor, University of Marburg, 1928 Professor, University of Leipzig, 1929-1935 Professor, University of Ankara, 1935-1948 Professor, University of Chicago, 1948-1955
Obituaries
FuF 39 (1965) 125-126 (W. von Soden) AfO 22 (1968-69) 203-206 (H.G. Güterbock), with photo ZA 60 (1970) 1-7 (B. Kienast) Or 37 (1968) 367-370 (A.L. Oppenheim) Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig - Jahrbuch 1966-68, 371-376 (H. Petschow) Syria 46 (1969) 187-189 (E. Reiner) ZDMG 119 (1969) 1-14 (W. von Soden)
Festschrift
Studies Presented to Benno Landsberger on His Seventieth Birthday (JNES 19 [1960]) 65-171 H.G. Güterbock - Th. Jacobsen, Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (As 16), Chicago 1965
