Wilfred G. Lambert
British assyriologist (1926–2011) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
British assyriologist (1926–2011) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
Wilfred George Lambert | |
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| Born | 26 February 1926 Chudleigh Road, Erdington, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Died | 9 November 2011 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | King Edward's School, Birmingham Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Assyriology |
| Institutions | Westminster School University of Toronto Johns Hopkins University Birmingham University École pratique des hautes études British Museum |
| Doctoral students | Irving Finkel |
Lambert was born in Birmingham, and, having won a scholarship, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He obtained two degrees, in Classics and Oriental Languages, at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.[1]
Lambert taught and researched at the University of Birmingham for thirty years, during which period he made weekly trips to work on deciphering cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. After retirement, he worked with the Museum on their Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, dealing with the inscriptions on the seals.[2] In January 2010, Professor Lambert and Irving Finkel identified pieces from a cuneiform tablet that was inscribed with the same text as the Cyrus Cylinder.[3]
Lambert was an external consultant for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.[4][5] His work, 'Introduction: the transmission of the literary and scholarly texts', in Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art II: Literary and scholastic texts of the first millennium BC, was used as background material for The Higher Education Academy's project, Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire.[6] He was also noted for his new discoveries in relation to the Gilgamesh text.[7]
Lambert was a Christadelphian, and a conscientious objector. From 1944, he worked in a horticultural nursery north of Birmingham in lieu of military service and supervised Italian prisoners of war in their work.[8] Later, in his spare time, he was editor of one of his church's quarterly magazines.[9] Lambert was a lifelong vegetarian.[1]
Lambert was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971. He was also a presenting member of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology).
This is a partial bibliography:
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