====== Meer, Petrus van der ======

== Name ==
Meer, Petrus van der

== Dates ==
30 April 1895 - 31 May 1963

== Birthplace ==
Heemstede, Netherlands

== Specialization ==
Assyriology

== Major works ==
Textes scolaires de Suse (MDP 27), Paris 1935 Syllabaries A, B1 and B with Miscellaneous Lexicographical Texts from the Herbert Weld Collection (OECT 4), Oxford 1938 The Chronology of Ancient Western Asia and Egypt, 2nd ed., Leiden 1955

== Remarks ==
Professor, Collegio Angelico, Rome, 1929-1934 Associate professor of History and Archaeology of the ancient Near East, Gemeinde-Universität, Amsterdam, 1940-1963 (successor of H. Frankfort)

== Obituaries ==
JEOL 16 (1964) 12-15 (Ph. Houwink ten Cate), with bibliography Phoenix 9 (1963) 48-50 (J. Cools) AfO 21 (1966) 260-261 (E. Weidner)