Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt
Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt (11 March 1861,
Urartian research, and was co-author of Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum, a corpus
of Urartian inscriptions.
After receiving a degree in law at the
University of Berlin (1886). Afterwards, he served as a research assistant in the Egyptology department at the Royal Museums of Berlin. In 1893 he obtained his habilitation and started work as a lecturer in ancient history. During his time spent at Berlin, his influences were Otto Hirschfeld, Friedrich Delitzsch and Theodor Mommsen.[1]
In 1898/99 he took part on an expedition to
Greek history at the University of Liverpool, followed by an appointment as a representative to the chair of ancient history at the University of Oxford (1913/14). In 1915/16 he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Constantinople. In 1918 he relocated to Innsbruck, where he taught classes until 1935.[1][2]
In 1901 he became the first editor of Klio. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, a journal of ancient history that he continued to edit until 1936.[1]
Selected works
- "De inscriptionibus cuneatis quae pertinent ad šamaš-šum-ukin regis Babyloniae regni initia", Berlin (dissertation), 1886.
- "Über protobabylonische Zahlwörter," in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie I, 222-228, 1886 – On Proto-Babylonian number words.
- Ein Siegel-Zylinder König Bur-Sin's von Isin. Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft, II, 589-621, 1893 – Bur-Sin.
- Materialien zur älteren geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens, 1907 (with Max van Berchem) – Material for the early history of Armenia and Mesopotamia.
- Armenien einst und jetzt: Vom Kaukasus zum Tigris und nach Tigranokerta, 1910 – Armenia past and present, volume I: From the Caucasus to the Tigris and Tigranocerta.
- Die historische Semiramis und ihre Zeit. Vortrag der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft zu Berlin am 6. Februar 1910, mit 50 Abb., 76 Seiten, 1910 – The historic Semiramis and their era.
- Israel: seine Entwicklung im Rahmen der Weltgeschichte, 1911 – Israel: its development in the context of world history.
- "Das urartäisch-chaldische Herrscherhaus," in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie XXXIII, 27-51, 1921. – The Urartian-Chaldean dynasty.
- "Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum", Berlin: (with Felix Bagel and Fritz Schachermeyr), 1928 and 1935.[2][3]
References
- ^ a b c Lorenz, Günther, "Carl Lehmann-Haupt" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), S. 98-99.
- ^ a b University of Innsbruck Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine Institute of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (biographical sketch)
- ^ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Ferdinand Friedrich Carl Lehmann-Haupt
