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

assyriology Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , '' -logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...

at the University of Berlin. His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes. He also authored a major text with

Dietrich Opitz Dietrich Opitz (13 January 1901 – 2 January 1992) was a German assyriologist and colleague of Bruno Meissner. He was the first to propose that Tell el Fakhariya was the location of Wassuganni, capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni from ...

on the palace of

Nineveh Nineveh (; akk, ; Biblical Hebrew: '; ar, نَيْنَوَىٰ '; syr, ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern ban ...

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

legacy In law, a legacy is something held and transferred to someone as their inheritance, as by will and testament. Personal effects, family property, marriage property or collective property gained by will of real property. Legacy or legacies may refer ...

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