Anton Deimel
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Anton Deimel SJ (5 December 1865 – 7 August 1954) was a German Roman Catholic priest, orientalist and theologian.
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Biography
Anton Deimel was born in Olpe, Germany. Deimel is considered one of the founders of Sumerology, which deals with the language, history, literature, religion and mythology and culture of the Mesopotamian people of the Sumerians. He was mainly concerned with economic texts of the 3rd millennium BC.
Deimel studied in London with Johann Strassmaier and had also transferred (all or most of) Strassmeier's notebooks containing copies of numerous ancient Near Eastern texts to Rome.
His most important work was the Sumerian Lexicon, Liste der archaischen Keilschriftzeichen.
Works
- Die Inschriften von Fara (1922)
References
- Falkenstein, Adam (1957). "Deimel, Anton". In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 3 Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 569.
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