Bruno Meissner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bruno Meissner

German assyriologist

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1868

Place of Birth: Grudziądz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1947

Profession: university teacher, legal historian, assyriologist, Near Eastern archaeologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868, in Graudenz – 13 March 1947, in Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.From 1904 to 1921 Meissner was professor at the University of Breslau, then from 1921 professor of assyriology at the University of Berlin.
His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes.
He also authored a major text with Dietrich Opitz on the palace of Nineveh. He originated the Reallexikon der Assyriologie and papers from his legacy form a large part of Wolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (abbv.
AHw).
3 vols (A-L, M-S, S-Z).