Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich°

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LEHMANN-HAUPT, CARL FRIEDRICH°

LEHMANN-HAUPT, CARL FRIEDRICH ° (1861–1938), German historian. Lehmann-Haupt taught ancient history in Berlin, Liverpool, Constantinople, and Innsbruck. He investigated Armenian and Mesopotamian culture, specializing in ancient Babylonian coins, weights, and measures. He published learned studies on old world chronologies, and on ancient Israel's contributions to world history. He was editor of Klio, a journal of ancient history (since 1901), and contributing editor of the Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology from 1911 to 1914. He wrote Babyloniens Kulturmission einst und jetzt (1903); Materialen zur aelteren Geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens (1907); Armenien einst und jezt (3 vols., 1910–26); Die Geschicke Judas und Israels im Rahmen der Weltgeschichte (1911); and Der juedische Kirchenstaat in persischer, griechischer und roemischer Zeit (1911); and he edited the Corpus inscriptionum chaldaicarum (1928–31).

bibliography:

Festschrift C.F. Lehmann-Haupt (1921). add. bibliography: ndb, 14 (1985), 98ff.

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