Dietz-Otto Edzard

Dietz-Otto Edzard (28 August 1930 in Bremen – 2 June 2004 in Munich) was a German scholar of the Ancient Near East and grammarian of the Sumerian language.

He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.[1]

Works
  • Sumerian Grammar 2003
  • Geschichte Mesopotamiens: Von den Sumerern bis zu Alexander dem Großen 2004
  • Gudea and His Dynasty (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods) 1997
  • "Gilgames und Huwawa" : Zwei Versionen der sumerischen Zedernwaldepisode nebst einer Edition von Version " B " 1993
  • Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der präsargonischen und sargonischen Zeit (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B) 1977

Among his final works was a 55-page essay on Ancient Babylonian literature and religion published by the Czech Academy of Science in 2005.[2]

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gollark: Also apparently subsidized by data gathering.
gollark: Because the built-in thing is insecure and bad.
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References
  1. "Dietz Otto Edzard (1930 - 2004)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020.
  2. Archiv orientální: journal of the Czechoslovak Oriental Institute, ...: Volume 73; Volume 73 Československý orientální ústav v Praze 2005 "Der Beitrag von Dietz Otto Edzard (2004) über Altbabylonische Literatur und Religion (S. 485 - 640) gehört zu den letzten Werken dieses großen deutschen Assyriologen."
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