Who's Who in Cuneiform Studies
A list of who is who in cuneiform studies is maintained here. It lists as far is possible the mosts important writings of deceased colleagues and links to obituaries and honorary volumes
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Aaboe, Asger Hartvig (26 April 1922 - 19 January 2007), Assyriology, History of Science
Albright, William Foxwell (24 May 1891 - 19 September 1971), Biblical studies
Allotte de la Füye, Francois Maurice (1844 - 13 February 1939), Assyriology
Alp, Sedat (1913-9 October 2006), Hittitology
Alster, Bendt (26 July 1946 - 30 April 2012), Assyriology
Amiaud, Arthur (28 January 1849 - 22 May 1889), Assyriology
Andrae, Ernst Walter (18 February 1875 - 28 July 1956), Archaeology
Aro, Jussi (1928-1983), Assyriology
Astour, Michael C. (17 December 1916 - 7 October 2004), Semitics
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Balkan, Kemal, Assyriology
Banks, Edgar (23 May 1866 – 5 May 1945), Near Eastern Archaeology
Barnett, Richard David (1909-), Babylonian and Assyrian Art
Barton, George Aaron (12 Nov 1859 - 28 June 1942), Assyriology
Bauer, Theo (4 March 1896 - 10 May 1957), Assyriology
Bellino, Karl (21 January 1791 - 13 November 1820), Assyriology
Bezold, Carl (18 May 1859 - 21 November 1922), Assyriology
Birot, Maurice (1916 - 1993), Assyriology
Bittel, Kurt (1907-), Hittite Archaeology
Black, Jeremy Allen (1 September 1951 - 28 April 2004), Assyriology
Böhl, Franz Marius Theodor (16 August 1882 - 1976), Assyriology
Boissier, Alfred (21 December 1867 - 28 November 1945), Assyriology
Borger, Rykle (24 May 1929 - 27 December 2010), Assyriology
Botta, Paul Émile (6 December 1802 - 18 April 1870), Archaeology
Bottéro, Jean (30 August 1914 - 15 December 2007), Assyriology
Braidwood, Robert, J. (1907- 15 January 2003), Archaeology
Breasted, James Henry (27 August 1865 - 2 December 1935), Egyptian Archaeology
Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (27 July 1857 - 1934), Egyptology; Assyriology
Butz, Kilian (12 March 1943 - 22 May 1990), Assyriology
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Cameron, George Glenn (1905 - 14 September 1979), Iranian Studies
Campbell Thompson, Reginald (21 August 1876 - 23 May 1941), Assyriology; Archaeology
Caplice, Richard Ignatius (10 October 1931 - 12 December 2011), Assyriology
Cardascia, Guillaume (? 1914 - 27 September 2006), Assyriology; History of Law
Cassin, Elena (? 1909 - June 2011), Assyriology
Chiera, Edward (5 August 1885 - 1933 ), Assyriology
Christian, Viktor (30 March 1885 - 28 May 1963), Assyriology; Archaeology
Clay, Albert Tobias (4 December 1866 - 14 September 1925), Assyriology
Contenau, Georges (9 April 1877 - 22 March 1964), Assyriology; Archaeology
Craig, James Alexander (5 March 1855 - 16 May 1932), Assyriology
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Damerow, Peter (20 December 1939 - 20 November 2011), History of Science, Assyriology
Deimel, Anton, SJ (5 December 1865- 7 August 1954), Assyriology
Delaporte, Louis Joseph (22 October 1874 - February 1944), Assyriology; Hittitology
Delitzsch, Friedrich (3 September 1850 - 19 December 1922), Assyriology
Deller, Karlheinz (21 February 1927 - 20 December 2003), Assyriology
Delougaz, Pinhas, Archaeology
Diakonoff, Igor Mikhailovich (12 January 1915 - 2 May 1999), Assyriology
Dikj, J.J.A. van, Assyriology
Driel, Govert van ( - 17 October 2002), Assyriology
Driver, Godfrey Rolles (20 August 1892 - 22 April 1975), Assyriology; Semitics
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Ebeling, Erich (21 November 1886 - 28 October 1955), Assyriology
Edzard, Dietz Otto (28 August 1930 - 2 June 2004), Assyriology
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Falkenstein, Adam (17 September 1906 - 15 October 1966), Assyriology
Field, Henry (1902 -), Anthropology
Figulla, Hugo Heinrich (27 December 1885 - 6 February 1969), Assyriology
Finet, Andre (1922? - 2 May 2007), Assyriology
Finkelstein, Jacob Joel (22 March 1922 - 28 November 1974), Assyriology
Fish, Thomas (1893), Assyriology
Forrer, Emil O. (19 Feb 1894 - ), Assyriology; Hittitology
Fossey, Charles (1869 - 27 November 1946), Assyriology
Frankfort, Henri (24 February 1897 - 16 July 1954), Archaeology
Frayne, Douglas R. (20 April 1951 - December 2017), Assyriology
Friedrich, Johannes (27 August 1893 - 12 August 1972), Hittitology
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Gadd, Cyril John (2 July 1893 - 2 December 1969), Assyriology
Garelli, Paul (23 April 1924 - 8 July 2006), Assyriology
Geers, Friedrich Wilhelm (24 January 1885 - 29 January 1955), Assyriology
Gelb, Ignace Jay (14 October 1907 - 22 December 1985), Assyriology
Genouillac, Henri de, Abbé (15 March 1881 - 20 November 1940), Assyriology
Goetze, Albrecht (11 July 1897 - 15 August 1971), Hittitology; Assyriology
Grotefend, Georg Friedrich (9 June 1775 - 15 December 1853), Assyriology
Gurney, Oliver Robert (28 January 1911 - 11 January 2001), Assyriology; Hittitology
Güterbock, Hans Gustav (27 May 1908 -), Hittitology
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Hallo, William Wolfgan (9 marth 1928) Assyriology
Hallock, Richard Treadwell (5 April 1906 - November 20 1980), Assyriology
Harper, Robert Francis (18 October 1864 - 5/6 August 1914), Assyriology
Haupt, Paul (25 November 1858 - 15 December 1926), Assyriology; Biblical studies
Heidel, Alexander (4 February 1907 - 19 June 1955), Assyriology
Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrath (28 July 1859 - 19 March 1925), Assyriology
Hincks, Edward (19 August 1792 - 3 December 1866), Egyptology; Assyriology
Hinz, Walther (1906 - ), Iranian studies
Hrozny, Bedrich (6 May 1879 - 12 December 1952), Hittitology; Assyriology
Hruška, Blahoslav (1945 - 2 June 2008), Assyriology
Hussey, Mary Inda (17 June 1876 - 20 June 1952), Assyriology
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Jacobsen, Thorkild (7 June 1904 - 2 May 1993), Assyriology
Jartiz, Kurt, Assyriology
Jean, Charles-François (20 March 1874 - 15 May 1955), Assyriology
Jestin, Raymond R., Assyriology
Jones, Tom Bard (1909 -), Assyriology; Classics
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Kammenhuber, Annelies (19 March 1922 - 24 December 1995), Hittitology
Kärki, Ilmari, Assyriology
keiser, Clarence Elwood (12 October 1884 - 21 July 1958), Assyriology
King, Leonard William (8 December 1869 - 20 August 1919), Assyriology
Klíma, Josef (16 November 1909 - 30 November 1989), Assyriology
Knudtzon, Jørgen Alexander (9 September 1854 - 7 January 1917), Assyriology
Koschaker, Paul (19 April 1879 - 1 June 1951), Assyriology
Kramer, Samuel Noah (28 September 1897 - 26 November 1990), Assyriology
Kraus, Fritz Rudolf (21 March 1910 - 19 January 1991), Assyriology
Kümmel, Hans Martin (30 December 1937 - 30 July 1986), Hittitology
Kupper, Jean-Robert (1920 -2009), Assyriology
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Labat, Rene (5 June 1904 - 3 April 1974), Assyriology
Læssøe, Jørgen (1924 -), Assyriology
Lambert, Maurice (13 November 1914 - 24 May 1979), Assyriology; Iranian studies
Lambert, Wilfred G. (26 February 1926 - 9 November 2011), Assyriology
Lampre, Georges (25 June 1855 - 8 May 1912)
Landsberger, Benno (21 April 1890 - 26 April 1968), Assyriology
Langdon, Stephen Herbert (8 May 1876 - 19 May 1937), Assyriology
Laroche, Emanuel (11 July 1914 - 16 June 1991), Hittitology
Layard, Austen Henry (5 March 1817 - 5 July 1894), Archaeology
Legrain, Léon (16 June 1878 - 29 October 1963), Assyriology
Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich (11 March 1861 - 24 July 1938), Assyriology
Lenormant, François (17 January 1837 - 9 December 1883), Assyriology
Lewy, Hildegard (17 November 1903 - 8 October 1969), Assyriology
Lewy, Julius (16 February 1895 - 19 June 1963), Assyriology
Lieberman, Stephen J., Assyriology
Limet, Henri, (1925? - 19 August 2009), Assyriology
Luckenbill, Daniel David (21 June 1881 - 5 June 1927), Assyriology
Lutz, Henry Ludwig Frederick (16 February 1886 - 17 August 1973), Assyriology; Egyptology
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Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien (6 May 1904 - 19 August 1978), Archaeology
Martin, William James (25 May 1904 - 21 March 1980), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Matous, Lubor (2 November 1908 - 2 April 1984), Assyriology
Meek, Theophile James (17 November 1881 - 19 February 1966), Assyriology
Meer, Petrus van der (30 April 1895 - 31 May 1963), Assyriology
Meissner, Bruno (25 April 1868 - 13 March 1947) , Assyriology
Mellink, Machteld, Johanna (1918 - 23 February 2006), Archaeology
Ménant, Joachim (16 April 1820 - 17 August 1899), Assyriology
Meriggi, Piero (12 January 1899 - 29 June 1982), Hittitology
Meyer, Eduard (1855 - 1930)
Meyer, Leon Baron De (1928 - 4 November 2006)
Morgan, Jacques de (3 June 1857 - 14 June 1924)
Moorey, Peter Roger Stuart (30 May 1937 - 23 December 2004), Archaeology
Moortgat, Anton (21 September 1897 - 9 October 1977), Archaeology
Müller, Manfred (1 June 1936 - 18 September 2000)
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Naster, Paul (19 December 1913 - 22 June 1998), Assyriology; Archaeology
Neugebauer, Otto (26 May 1899 - 19 Febraury 1990), Assyriology
Nöldeke, Theodor (2 March 1836 - 25 December 1930), Semitics
Nougayrol, Jean (1900 - 23 January 1975), Assyriology
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Oberhuber, Karl (31 October 1915 - 4 January 1997), Assyriology
Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck (1880 - 1945), Assyriology
Oppenheim, Adolf Leo (7 June 1904 - 21 July 1974), Assyriology
Oppert, Jules (1825- 1905), Assyriology
Otten, Heinrich (27 December 1913 - 8 April 2012), Hittitology
Tahsin, Ozguc (1916 - 28 October 2005), Archaeology
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Parrot, André (1901 - 24 August 1980) , Archaeology
Petschow, Herbert P. H. (26 December 1909 - 28 June 1991), Assyriology
Pfeiffer, Robert Henry (14 February 1892 - 16 March 1958), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge, Assyriology
Pingree, David Edwin (2 January 1933 - 11 November 2005), Assyriology
Poebel, Arno (26 January 1881 - 3 March 1958), Assyriology
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Radau, Hugo (1873 -), Assyriology
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (1810 - 1895), Assyriology
Reiner, Erica (1924 - 31 December 2005), Assyriology
Römer, Willem Hendrik Philibert (1928 -), Assyriology
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Saggs, Henry W.F. (2 December 1920 - 31 August 2005), Assyriology
Salonen, Armas (1915 - 22 October 1981), Assyriology
Salonen, Erkki, Assyriology
San Nicoló, Mariano (20 August 1887 - 15 May 1955), Assyriology
Sayce, Archibald Henry (25 September 1845- 4 Febraury 1933), Assyriology
Scheil, Jean-Vincent (10 June 1858 - 21 September 1940), Assyriology
Schneider, Nikolaus (29 November 1884 - 6 March 1953), Assyriology
Schott, Albert (1901 - ), Assyriology
Schrader, Eberhard (1836-1908), Assyriology
Schroeder, Otto (1851 - 2 February 1928), Assyriology
Shilejko, Woldemar Kazimirovich (14 February 1891 - 15 October 1930), Assyriology
Sjöberg, Åke W. (1 August 1924 - 8 August 2014), Assyriology
Smith, George (1840 - 1876), Assyriology
Sollberger, Edmond, Assyriology
Soucek, Vladimir (1 June 1928 - 9 June 1990), Hittitology
Speiser, Ephraim Avigdor (24 January 1902 - 15 June 1965), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Stephens, Ferris J. (26 December 1893 - 31 October 1969), Assyriology
Strassmaier, Johann Nepomucen (1846 - 1920)
Streck, Maximilian (1873 - 25 March 1945), Assyriology
Struve, V. V. (1889 – 15 September 1965), Assyriology
Szlechter, Émile, Assyriology
Shilejko, Vladimir Kazimirovich (14 February 1891 – 15 October 1930), Assyriology
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Tadmor, Hayim (18 November 1923 - 11 December 2005), Assyriology
Tallqvist, Knut Leonard (1865 - 16 August 1949), Assyriology
Thureau-Dangin, François (3 January 1872 - 24 January 1944), Assyriology
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Unger, Eckhard (11 April 1885 - 24 July 1966), Archaeology
Ungnad, Arthur (1879 - 26 April 1945), Assyriology
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Vaiman, Aizik Abramovich (12 July 1922 - 1 April 2013), Assyriology
Virolleaud, Charles (2 July 1879 - 17 December 1968), Assyriology
von Oppenheim, Max (1860 - 14 November 1946), Archaeology
von Soden, Wolfram (19 June 1908 - 6 October 1996), Assyriology
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Waterman, Leroy (1875 - 1972), Assyriology; Biblical Studies
Weidner, Ernst F. (7 October 1891 - 8 February 1976 ), Assyriology
Weissbach, Franz Heinrich (1865 - 20 February 1944), Assyriology
Westbrook, Raymond (1946 - 23 July 2009), Assyriology
Winckler, Hugo (1863 - 1913), Assyriology
Wiseman, Donald John, Assyriology
Witzel, Maurus Adelbert (3 April 1882 - 23 January 1968), Assyriology
Woolley, Charles Leonard (17 April 1880 - 20 February 1960), Archaeology
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Young, Theodore Cuyler, Jr. (30 March 1934 - 7 February 2006), Archaeology
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Zimmern, Heinrich (14 July 1862 - 13 February 1931), Assyriology
