Edmond Sollberger
Edmond Sollberger, FBA (12 October 1920 – 21 June 1989) was a Turkish-born, Swiss–British museum curator, cuneiformist and scholar of the Sumerian language.
Early life and education
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Anton Deimel in 1947.[1]
Career
In 1949, Sollberger was appointed an assistant keeper of archaeology at the
Présargoniques de Lagaš (1952) and Corpus des Inscriptions "Royales" Présargoniques de Lagaš (1956); for the 1952 book, he received the DLitt from the University of Geneva in 1952.[1]
In 1961, Sollberger moved to England to be a temporary assistant
Theophilus Goldridge Pinches); he made his own copies for another volume in the series (Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic Economic Texts) in 1972. He also wrote a popular book, The Babylonian Legend of the Flood (1962), as well as Inscriptions Royales Sumeriennes et Akkadiennes (with Robert Kupper, 1971); he edited The Pinches Manuscript (1978) and authored Administrative Texts Chiefly Concerning Textiles (1981). In the meantime, Sollberger had been appointed co-editor of The Cambridge Ancient History (1969) and from 1979 was the editor-in-chief of The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia series based at the University of Toronto. He had been elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1973.[2]
Sollberger had a stroke in 1982, which left him unable to continue his duties; he retired from the British Museum in 1983.[3] He died on 21 June 1989; his wife Ariane and their two daughters survived him.[4]
References
- ^ a b Christopher Walker, "Edmond Sollberger (12 October 1920 – 21 June 1989", Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 35 (1988), p. 258.
- Terence C. Mitchell, "Edmond Sollberger, 1920–1989", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 97 (1998), pp. 453–460.
- ^ Mitchell (1998), p. 461.
- ^ "Edmond Sollberger", The Times, 24 June 1989, p. 12.
