Hermann Volrath Hilprecht , 1859-1925, American Assyriologist, b. Germany; Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1883. He is noted as an authority on cuneiform writing. Hilprecht went to the United States in 1886 and was professor of Assyriology (1886-1911) at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and curator (1887-1911) of the Semitic Dept. of its museum. He was scientific director of four expeditions (1895-1914) to Nippur, present-day Iraq, where he oversaw the excavation of thousands of Sumerian historical and literary texts from the Temple of the Wind God. He also reorganized (1893-1909) the Babylonian collection of...
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