Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868, in Graudenz – 13 March 1947, in Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.Erika Bleibtreu, Johannes Boese and Barthel Hrouda: ''Orientalistenleben. Kurzbiografien von E. F. Weidner, B. Meissner, E. Unger und F. Hommel'', In: ''Alter Orient aktuell'' 8 (2007), S. 26f. From 1904 to 1921 Meissner was professor at the University of Breslau, then from 1921 professor of

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at the

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. His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian

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texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes. He also authored a major text with Dietrich Opitz on the palace of

Nineveh Nineveh ( ; , ''URUNI.NU.A, Ninua''; , ''Nīnəwē''; , ''Nīnawā''; , ''Nīnwē''), was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul (itself built out of the Assyrian town of Mepsila) in northern ...

. He originated the '' Reallexikon der Assyriologie'' and papers from his

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form a large part of Wolfram von Soden's '' Akkadisches Handwörterbuch'' (abbv. AHw). 3 vols (A-L, M-S, S-Z).

Works

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Supplement zu den Assyrischen Wörterbüchern
', E. J. Brill, Leiden 1898. *
Kurzgefaßte Assyrische Grammatik
', Hinrichs, Leipzig 1907 (''Hilfsbücher zur Kunde des Alten Orients'', vol. 3). * ''Babylonien und Assyrien'', 2 vols., Winter, Heidelberg 1920 and 1925. * ''Beiträge zum assyrischen Wörterbuch'', 2 vols., The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1931 and 1932.

References

1868 births 1947 deaths German Assyriologists German male non-fiction writers Nazi Party members {{Germany-historian-stub