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German Assyriologist (1890–1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benno Landsberger (21 April 1890 – 26 April 1968) was a German Assyriologist.
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Benno Landsberger | |
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| Born | 21 April 1890 |
| Died | 26 April 1968 (aged 78) |
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| Fields | Assyriology |
| Doctoral students | Erica Reiner |
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He was born on 21 April 1890 in Friedek, then part of Austrian Silesia, and from 1908 studied Oriental Studies at Leipzig. Amongst his teachers were August Fischer in Arabic and Heinrich Zimmern in Assyriology.
In 1914, Landsberger joined the Austro-Hungarian Army, where he fought with distinction on the Eastern Front, winning a golden Distinguished Service Cross. He returned to Leipzig after the war and was appointed to the position of 'extraordinary professor" in 1926. In 1928, he was appointed successor to Peter Jensen at Marburg, but returned to Leipzig in 1929 as Zimmern's successor.
Landsberger was dismissed as a result of the Nazi-era Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service which excluded Jews from government employment. Landsberger accepted a post at the new Turkish University of Ankara, working especially in the area of languages, history and geography. After 1945 he was appointed to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he worked until 1955. During this period he became a naturalized American citizen. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1959.[1]
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