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Who's Who in Cuneiform Studies
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Aaboe, Asger Hartvig (26 April 1922 - 19 January 2007), Assyriology, History of Science
Albright, William Foxwell (24 May 1891 - 19 September 1971), Biblical studies
Allotte de la Füye, Francois Maurice (1844 - 13 February 1939), Assyriology
Alp, Sedat (1913-9 October 2006), Hittitology
Alster, Bendt (26 July 1946 - 30 April 2012), Assyriology
Amiaud, Arthur (28 January 1849 - 22 May 1889), Assyriology
Andrae, Ernst Walter (18 February 1875 - 28 July 1956), Archaeology
Aro, Jussi (1928-1983), Assyriology
Astour, Michael C. (17 December 1916 - 7 October 2004), Semitics
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Balkan, Kemal, Assyriology
Banks, Edgar (23 May 1866 – 5 May 1945), Near Eastern Archaeology
Barnett, Richard David (1909-), Babylonian and Assyrian Art
Barton, George Aaron (12 Nov 1859 - 28 June 1942), Assyriology
Bauer, Theo (4 March 1896 - 10 May 1957), Assyriology
Bellino, Karl (21 January 1791 - 13 November 1820), Assyriology
Bezold, Carl (18 May 1859 - 21 November 1922), Assyriology
Bittel, Kurt (1907-), Hittite Archaeology
Black, Jeremy Allen (1 September 1951 - 28 April 2004), Assyriology
Böhl, Franz Marius Theodor (16 August 1882 - 1976), Assyriology
Boissier, Alfred (21 December 1867 - 28 November 1945), Assyriology
Borger, Rykle (24 May 1929 - 27 December 2010), Assyriology
Botta, Paul Émile (6 December 1802 - 18 April 1870), Archaeology
Bottéro, Jean (30 August 1914 - 15 December 2007), Assyriology
Braidwood, Robert, J. (1907- 15 January 2003), Archaeology
Breasted, James Henry (27 August 1865 - 2 December 1935), Egyptian Archaeology
Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (27 July 1857 - 1934), Egyptology; Assyriology
Butz, Kilian (12 March 1943 - 22 May 1990), Assyriology
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Cameron, George Glenn (1905 - 14 September 1979), Iranian Studies
Campbell Thompson, Reginald (21 August 1876 - 23 May 1941), Assyriology; Archaeology
Caplice, Richard Ignatius (10 October 1931 - 12 December 2011), Assyriology
Cardascia, Guillaume (? 1914 - 27 September 2006), Assyriology; History of Law
Chiera, Edward (5 August 1885 - 1933 ), Assyriology
Christian, Viktor (30 March 1885 - 28 May 1963), Assyriology; Archaeology
Clay, Albert Tobias (4 December 1866 - 14 September 1925), Assyriology
Contenau, Georges (9 April 1877 - 22 March 1964), Assyriology; Archaeology
Craig, James Alexander (5 March 1855 - 16 May 1932), Assyriology
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Damerow, Peter (20 December 1939 - 20 November 2011), History of Science, Assyriology
Deimel, Anton, SJ (5 December 1865- 7 August 1954), Assyriology
Delaporte, Louis Joseph (22 October 1874 - February 1944), Assyriology; Hittitology
Delitzsch, Friedrich (3 September 1850 - 19 December 1922), Assyriology
Deller, Karlheinz (21 February 1927 - 20 December 2003), Assyriology
Delougaz, Pinhas, Archaeology
Diakonoff, Igor Mikhailovich (12 January 1915 - 2 May 1999), Assyriology
Dikj, J.J.A. van, Assyriology
Driel, Govert van ( - 17 October 2002), Assyriology
Driver, Godfrey Rolles (20 August 1892 - 22 April 1975), Assyriology; Semitics
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Ebeling, Erich (21 November 1886 - 28 October 1955), Assyriology
Edzard, Dietz Otto (28 August 1930 - 2 June 2004), Assyriology
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Falkenstein, Adam (17 September 1906 - 15 October 1966), Assyriology
Field, Henry (1902 -), Anthropology
Figulla, Hugo Heinrich (27 December 1885 - 6 February 1969), Assyriology
Finet, Andre (1922? - 2 May 2007), Assyriology
Finkelstein, Jacob Joel (22 March 1922 - 28 November 1974), Assyriology
Fish, Thomas (1893), Assyriology
Forrer, Emil O. (19 Feb 1894 - ), Assyriology; Hittitology
Fossey, Charles (1869 - 27 November 1946), Assyriology
Frankfort, Henri (24 February 1897 - 16 July 1954), Archaeology
Friedrich, Johannes (27 August 1893 - 12 August 1972), Hittitology
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Gadd, Cyril John (2 July 1893 - 2 December 1969), Assyriology
Garelli, Paul (23 April 1924 - 8 July 2006), Assyriology
Geers, Friedrich Wilhelm (24 January 1885 - 29 January 1955), Assyriology
Gelb, Ignace Jay (14 October 1907 - 22 December 1985), Assyriology
Genouillac, Henri de, Abbé (15 March 1881 - 20 November 1940), Assyriology
Goetze, Albrecht (11 July 1897 - 15 August 1971), Hittitology; Assyriology
Grotefend, Georg Friedrich (9 June 1775 - 15 December 1853), Assyriology
Gurney, Oliver Robert (28 January 1911 - 11 January 2001), Assyriology; Hittitology
Güterbock, Hans Gustav (27 May 1908 -), Hittitology
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Hallock, Richard Treadwell (5 April 1906 - November 20 1980), Assyriology
Harper, Robert Francis (18 October 1864 - 5/6 August 1914), Assyriology
Haupt, Paul (25 November 1858 - 15 December 1926), Assyriology; Biblical studies
Heidel, Alexander (4 February 1907 - 19 June 1955), Assyriology
Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrath (28 July 1859 - 19 March 1925), Assyriology
Hincks, Edward (19 August 1792 - 3 December 1866), Egyptology; Assyriology
Hinz, Walther (1906 - ), Iranian studies
Hrozny, Bedrich (6 May 1879 - 12 December 1952), Hittitology; Assyriology
Hruška, Blahoslav (1945 - 2 June 2008), Assyriology
Hussey, Mary Inda (17 June 1876 - 20 June 1952), Assyriology
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J
Jacobsen, Thorkild (7 June 1904 - 2 May 1993), Assyriology
Jartiz, Kurt, Assyriology
Jean, Charles-François (20 March 1874 - 15 May 1955), Assyriology
Jestin, Raymond R., Assyriology
Jones, Tom Bard (1909 -), Assyriology; Classics
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Kammenhuber, Annelies (19 March 1922 - 24 December 1995), Hittitology
Kärki, Ilmari, Assyriology
keiser, Clarence Elwood (12 October 1884 - 21 July 1958), Assyriology
King, Leonard William (8 December 1869 - 20 August 1919), Assyriology
Klíma, Josef (16 November 1909 - 30 November 1989), Assyriology
Knudtzon, Jørgen Alexander (9 September 1854 - 7 January 1917), Assyriology
Koschaker, Paul (19 April 1879 - 1 June 1951), Assyriology
Kramer, Samuel Noah (28 September 1897 - 26 November 1990), Assyriology
Kraus, Fritz Rudolf (21 March 1910 - 19 January 1991), Assyriology
Kümmel, Hans Martin (30 December 1937 - 30 July 1986), Hittitology
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Labat, Rene (5 June 1904 - 3 April 1974), Assyriology
Læssøe, Jørgen (1924 -), Assyriology
Lambert, Maurice (13 November 1914 - 24 May 1979), Assyriology; Iranian studies
Lambert, Wilfred G. (26 February 1926 - 9 November 2011), Assyriology
Landsberger, Benno (21 April 1890 - 26 April 1968), Assyriology
Langdon, Stephen Herbert (8 May 1876 - 19 May 1937), Assyriology
Laroche, Emanuel (11 July 1914 - 16 June 1991), Hittitology
Layard, Austen Henry (5 March 1817 - 5 July 1894), Archaeology
Legrain, Léon (16 June 1878 - 29 October 1963), Assyriology
Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich (11 March 1861 - 24 July 1938), Assyriology
Lenormant, François (17 January 1837 - 9 December 1883), Assyriology
Lewy, Hildegard (17 November 1903 - 8 October 1969), Assyriology
Lewy, Julius (16 February 1895 - 19 June 1963), Assyriology
Lieberman, Stephen J., Assyriology
Limet, Henri, (1925? - 19 August 2009), Assyriology
Luckenbill, Daniel David (21 June 1881 - 5 June 1927), Assyriology
Lutz, Henry Ludwig Frederick (16 February 1886 - 17 August 1973), Assyriology; Egyptology
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Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien (6 May 1904 - 19 August 1978), Archaeology
Martin, William James (25 May 1904 - 21 March 1980), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Matous, Lubor (2 November 1908 - 2 April 1984), Assyriology
Meek, Theophile James (17 November 1881 - 19 February 1966), Assyriology
Meer, Petrus van der (30 April 1895 - 31 May 1963), Assyriology
Meissner, Bruno (25 April 1868 - 13 March 1947) , Assyriology
Mellink, Machteld, Johanna (1918 - 23 February 2006), Archaeology
Ménant, Joachim (16 April 1820 - 17 August 1899), Assyriology
Meriggi, Piero (12 January 1899 - 29 June 1982), Hittitology
Meyer, Eduard (1855 - 1930)
Meyer, Leon Baron De (1928 - 4 November 2006)
Morgan, Jacques de (3 June 1857 - 14 June 1924)
Moorey, Peter Roger Stuart (30 May 1937 - 23 December 2004), Archaeology
Moortgat, Anton (21 September 1897 - 9 October 1977), Archaeology
Müller, Manfred (1 June 1936 - 18 September 2000)
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Naster, Paul (19 December 1913 - 22 June 1998), Assyriology; Archaeology
Neugebauer, Otto (26 May 1899 - 19 Febraury 1990), Assyriology
Nöldeke, Theodor (2 March 1836 - 25 December 1930), Semitics
Nougayrol, Jean (1900 - 23 January 1975), Assyriology
Oberhuber, Karl (31 October 1915 - 4 January 1997), Assyriology
Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck (1880 - 1945), Assyriology
Oppenheim, Adolf Leo (7 June 1904 - 21 July 1974), Assyriology
Oppert, Jules (1825- 1905), Assyriology
Otten, Heinrich (27 December 1913 - 8 April 2012), Hittitology
Tahsin, Ozguc (1916 - 28 October 2005), Archaeology
Parrot, André (1901 - 24 August 1980) , Archaeology
Petschow, Herbert P. H. (26 December 1909 - 28 June 1991), Assyriology
Pfeiffer, Robert Henry (14 February 1892 - 16 March 1958), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge, Assyriology
Pingree, David Edwin (2 January 1933 - 11 November 2005), Assyriology
Poebel, Arno (26 January 1881 - 3 March 1958), Assyriology
Radau, Hugo (1873 -), Assyriology
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (1810 - 1895), Assyriology
Reiner, Erica (1924 - 31 December 2005), Assyriology
246;mer, Willem Hendrik Philibert (1928 -), Assyriology
Saggs, Henry W.F. (2 December 1920 - 31 August 2005), Assyriology
Salonen, Armas (1915 - 22 October 1981), Assyriology
Salonen, Erkki, Assyriology
San Nicoló, Mariano (20 August 1887 - 15 May 1955), Assyriology
Sayce, Archibald Henry (25 September 1845- 4 Febraury 1933), Assyriology
Scheil, Jean-Vincent (10 June 1858 - 21 September 1940), Assyriology
Schneider, Nikolaus (29 November 1884 - 6 March 1953), Assyriology
Schott, Albert (1901 - ), Assyriology
Schrader, Eberhard (1836-1908), Assyriology
Schroeder, Otto (1851 - 2 February 1928), Assyriology
Shilejko, Woldemar Kazimirovich (14 February 1891 - 15 October 1930), Assyriology
Smith, George (1840 - 1876), Assyriology
Sollberger, Edmond, Assyriology
Soucek, Vladimir (1 June 1928 - 9 June 1990), Hittitology
Speiser, Ephraim Avigdor (24 January 1902 - 15 June 1965), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Stephens, Ferris J. (26 December 1893 - 31 October 1969), Assyriology
Strassmaier, Johann Nepomucen (1846 - 1920)
Streck, Maximilian (1873 - 25 March 1945), Assyriology
Struve, V. V. (1889 – 15 September 1965), Assyriology
Szlechter, Émile, Assyriology
Shilejko, Vladimir Kazimirovich (14 February 1891 – 15 October 1930), Assyriology
Tadmor, Hayim (18 November 1923 - 11 December 2005), Assyriology
Tallqvist, Knut Leonard (1865 - 16 August 1949), Assyriology
Thureau-Dangin, François (3 January 1872 - 24 January 1944), Assyriology
Unger, Eckhard (11 April 1885 - 24 July 1966), Archaeology
Ungnad, Arthur (1879 - 26 April 1945), Assyriology
Virolleaud, Charles (2 July 1879 - 17 December 1968), Assyriology
von Oppenheim, Max (1860 - 14 November 1946), Archaeology
von Soden, Wolfram (19 June 1908 - 6 October 1996), Assyriology
Waterman, Leroy (1875 - 1972), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Weidner, Ernst F. (7 October 1891 - 8 February 1976 ), Assyriology
Weissbach, Franz Heinrich (1865 - 20 February 1944), Assyriology
Westbrook, Raymond (1946 - 23 July 2009), Assyriology
Winckler, Hugo (1863 - 1913), Assyriology
Wiseman, Donald John, Assyriology
Witzel, Maurus Adelbert (3 April 1882 - 23 January 1968), Assyriology
Woolley, Charles Leonard (17 April 1880 - 20 February 1960), Archaeology
Young, Theodore Cuyler, Jr. (30 March 1934 - 7 February 2006), Archaeology
Zimmern, Heinrich (14 July 1862 - 13 February 1931), Assyriology