Wolfram von Soden
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Wolfram Freiherr von Soden (1908-1996) was a German assyriologist. He was a professor first at Göttingen University, and later for many years at Münster University. His works include Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik and Akkadisches Handwörterbuch.
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- 1948: Das akkadische Syllabar. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum. (4th ed.: ISBN 88-7653-257-9)
- 1952: Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik (abbv. GAG). Analecta Orientalia 33. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum. (3rd ed.: ISBN 88-7653-258-7)
- 1958: (with Albert Schott) Das Gilgamesch-Epos. Stuttgart: Reclam. (1977 reprint: ISBN 3-15-007235-2)
- 1965-1981: Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (abbv. AHw). 3 vols (A-L, M-S, S-Z). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (ISBN 3-447-01471-7) [This served as the basis for: A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, edited by Jeremy Black, Andrew George and Nicholas Postgate, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1999 (ISBN 3-447-04225-7)]
- 1968: (with Heinrich Otten) Das akkadisch-hethitische Vokabular KBo I 44+KBo XIII 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- 1985: Einführung in die Altorientalistik. Darmstadt [West Germany]: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. (translated by Donald G. Schley as The Ancient Orient: An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East, Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans 1994. ISBN 0-8028-0142-0)