About the Author
Obras de Thorkild Jacobsen
Before philosophy : A study of the primitive myths, beliefs and speculations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, out of which… (1946) 465 cópias
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute… (1977) 191 cópias
Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture (Semitic) (1970) 17 cópias
Sumerological studies in honor of Thorkild Jacobsen on his seventieth birthday, June 7, 1974 (1976) 10 cópias
Most Ancient Verse 6 cópias
Sennacherib's aqueduct at Jerwan 3 cópias
Salinity and irrigation agriculture in antiquity Diyala Basin archaeological projects: Report on essential results,… (1982) 2 cópias
Karanlığın Hazineleri 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Jacobsen, Thorkild
- Nome de batismo
- Jacobsen, Thorkild Peter Rudolph
- Data de nascimento
- 1904-06-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1993-05-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Denmark
- Local de nascimento
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Local de falecimento
- Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- Locais de residência
- Bradford, New Hampshire, USA
- Educação
- University of Copenhagen
University of Chicago - Ocupação
- archaeologist
ancient historian
assyriologist
translator
professor
college dean - Relacionamentos
- Frankfort, Henri (colleague)
- Organizações
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
American Oriental Society (president)
Harvard University - Premiações
- Guggenheim Fellowship (Near Eastern Studies, 1968)
- Pequena biografia
- Thorkild Jacobsen received his master's degree from the University of Copenhagen and then came to the USA to study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD. He became a field Assyriologist for the Institute's Iraq Expedition, which lasted from 1929 to 1937. He managed the excavation of the 2,600-year-old Sennacherib aqueduct at Jerwan, which at that time was the world's oldest-known aqueduct. He was considered an expert translator of cuneiform compositions and a brilliant interpreter of Sumerian and Akkadian cultures. In 1946, he was named director of the Institute. He also served as dean of the Humanities Division (1948–1951), as an editor of the Assyrian Dictionary (1955–1959), and as professor of Social Institutions (1946–1962). In 1962, Prof. Jacobsen took up an appointment as professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He then served as a visiting professor at UCLA, where he helped develop a strong Assyriology program. He served as president of the American Oriental Society.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Membros
- 1,140
- Popularidade
- #22,524
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 2