Friedrich Delitzsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Delitzsch

German assyriologist

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1850

Place of Birth: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1922

Profession: theologian, university teacher, church historian, assyriologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Friedrich Delitzsch (3 September 1850 – 19 December 1922) was a German Assyriologist.
He was the son of Lutheran theologian Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890). Born in Erlangen, he studied in Leipzig and Berlin, gaining his habilitation in 1874 as a lecturer of Semitic languages and Assyriology in Leipzig.
In 1885 he became a full professor at Leipzig, afterwards serving as a professor at the Universities of Breslau (1893) and Berlin (1899). He was co-founder of the Deutschen Orientgesellschaft (German Oriental Society) and director of the Vorderasiatischen Abteilung (Near Eastern Department) of the Royal Museums.