====== Geers, Friedrich Wilhelm ======

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== Name ==
Geers, Friedrich Wilhelm

== Dates ==
24 January 1885 - 29 January 1955

== Birthplace ==
Blomberg, Germany

== Specialization ==
Assyriology

== Major works ==
A Babylonian Omen Text: AJSL 43 (1926) 22-41

== Remarks ==
Staff of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute, 1923- Associate Professor of Assyriology, University of Chicago, 1926-1950 Visited the museums of London, Berlin, Istanbul and Baghdad, making innumerable copies and joins, especially from among the fragments from the Library of Assurbanipal

== Obituaries ==
AfO 17 (1954-1956) 489 (E. Weidner), with photo JNES 33/2 (1974) 179-181 (A.L. Oppenheim)

== Festschrift ==
From Assurbanpal’s Library: Studies in Memory of F. W. Geers: JNES 33/2-3 (1974)