Heinrich Zimmern

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To be distinguished from Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943) German Indologist, and Heinrich Zimmer (Celticist) (1851–1910)

Heinrich Zimmern (14 July 1862, in

Assyriologist. He was the first professor of Assyriology at Leipzig University,[1] and considered the founder of the discipline of the history of the ancient Near Eastern religions in Germany.[2]

Academic career

From 1881 to 1885 he studied

Berlin, receiving his habilitation for Semitic languages in 1889 at the University of Königsberg. In 1894 he became an associate professor of Assyriology to the faculty of philosophy at Leipzig, where from 1900 to 1929 he served as a full professor.[3]

Published works

References

  1. ^ Instituut voor Semitistiek en Archeologie van het Nabije Oosten - Page 27 J. H. Hospers - 1978 "5 Der erste Lehrstuhl fur Assyriologie wurde im Jahre 1900 in Leipzig mit der Berufung von H. Zimmern als ordentlicher Professor geschaffen, s. J. Oelsner, "Heinrich Zimmern (1862-1931)", in: Bedeutende Gelehrte in Leipzig, Band I, Leipzig ..."
  2. Wolfram Von Soden
    The Ancient Orient: An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient ... - Page xvii 1994 "From those scholars already at work at the turn of the century, to whom we are indebted even today, I would like to name as representative here only Heinrich Zimmern (1862-1931), the founder of the discipline of the history of ancient Near Eastern religions."
  3. ^ Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Zimmern Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig