Jeremy Black (assyriologist)
Jeremy Black | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 April 2004 Oxfordshire | (aged 52)
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Known for | Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature |
Spouse | Ellen McAdam (divorced) |
Scientific career | |
Doctoral advisor | Edmond Sollberger, Oliver Gurney |
Jeremy Allen Black (1 September 1951 –
Black was born in
After his attendance at
For postgraduate studies, partly supervised by
While completing his DPhil dissertation, Black took a position with St Catherine's Foundation,
In 1982 Black took up the post of assistant director of the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq, the
In
Benefitting from the recommendations of the 1986 Parker Report into Asian and African Studies in Universities in the UK, in 1988 Oxford University was able to re-establish a full-time lectureship in Assyriology (absent since the retirement of Gurney in 1978). The new post, known as University Lecturer in Akkadian, was awarded to Black, who was also elected a Fellow of Wolfson College.
Back in Oxford – apart from periods devoted to full administrative duties, first as Senior
From 1997, with initial funding from the
Towards the end of his life Black had the pleasurable discovery of, and contact with, his half-brother, Peter Mitchell (the son of Dudley by his first wife), living in the British Virgin Islands. He was also an enthusiastic amateur musician who sang bass with the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford, and with the Northamptonshire-based period music ensemble Fiori Musicali.
Black died in 2004 at Oxford. The Jeremy Allen Black Trust for Assyriology, a fund to support young Assyriologists, was established by the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University in his memory. At Upton Court Grammar School, a memorial prize for Languages and Classics is given each year in his memory.
Sources
- Obituary by Andrew R. George in Iraq (Journal of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq) 66 (2004), pp. vii–ix.
- Obituary by Irving Finkel and Stephen Roe in College Record (Wolfson College Oxford) 2003–2004, pp. 23–25 (republished from The Independent).
- Personal reflections by Jay Lewis in College Record (Wolfson College Oxford) 2003–2004, pp. 21–23.
- ^ "Jeremy Black (obituary)". The Independent Newspaper. 25 May 2004. Retrieved 16 October 2011.[dead link]
External links
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature can be found at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) Archived 2 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine.