A. Leo Oppenheim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

A. Leo Oppenheim

Austrian academic

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1904

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1974

Profession: historian, university teacher, assyriologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About A. Leo Oppenheim

  • Adolf Leo Oppenheim (7 June 1904 – 21 July 1974), one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of his generation was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute from 1955 to 1974 and John A.
  • Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago. Oppenheim was born in Vienna, where he received his Ph.D.
  • at the University of Vienna in 1933.
  • His parents died in the Holocaust, and his wife, Elizabeth, barely escaped.
  • Oppenheim and his wife emigrated to the United States.
  • After a couple of lean years, he became a research associate at the University of Chicago in 1947, and he was made a faculty member in 1950.
  • He became an associate editor of the university's Chicago Assyrian Dictionary in 1952.
  • The dictionary had been planned since 1921, and it would eventually stretch to more than twenty published volumes.
  • Assisted by Erica Reiner, Oppenheim remained editor-in-charge until his sudden death, still at the height of his intellectual powers. E.
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  • Speiser once said that Oppenheim had read more cuneiform than any other living person; his deep knowledge of Akkadian informed his discerning view of Mesopotamian daily life and culture. A.
  • Leo Oppenheim's most famous work is Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization.
  • His attempt to reform the field, embodied in Assyriology— Why and How?, was taken personally by some other Assyriologists.
  • Its tone of pessimism at the impossible prospect of reviving a living understanding of Mesopotamian culture belied his personal optimism and sociability.

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