Bruno Meissner

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Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868 Graudenz - 13 March 1947 Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.^[1]

From 1904 to 1921 Meissner was professor at the University of Breslau, then from 1921 professor of assyriology at the University of Berlin. His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes. He also authored a major text with Dietrich Opitz on the palace of Nineveh.

He originated the Reallexikon der Assyriologie and papers from his legacy form a large part of Wolfram von Sodens Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (abbv. AHw). 3 vols (A-L, M-S, S-Z).

Works

Bruno Meissner, Friedrich Delitzsch (1898). Assyrisches Handwörterbuch. 1896 (ATLA monograph preservation program). E.J. Brill. p. 137. Retrieved 2011-07-05.

References

↑ Erika Bleibtreu, Johannes Boese und Barthel Hrouda: Orientalistenleben. Kurzbiografien von E.F. Weidner, B. Meissner, E. Unger und F. Hommel, In: Alter Orient aktuell 8 (2007), S. 26f.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 66506561 LCCN: n91019631 ISNI: 0000 0001 2137 2813 GND: 116870214 BNF: cb12163246f

Persondata
Name	Meissner,Bruno
Alternative names
Short description	Assyriologist
Date of birth	25 April 1868
Place of birth	Graudenz, Germany
Date of death	13 March 1947
Place of death	Zeuthen, Germany

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