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Messerschmidt, Leopold, 1870-1911

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Personal name headingMesserschmidt, Leopold, 1870-1911
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Variant(s)Messerschmidt, L. (Leopold), 1870-1911
Associated countryGermany
Birth date1870-08-29
Death date1911-03-11
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Place of deathCharlottenburg (Berlin, Germany)
Field of activityAssyriology
AffiliationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Vorderasiatische Abteilung
Profession or occupationAssyriologists Middle East specialists
Found inThe Hittites, 1903 : t.p. (Dr. L. Messerschmidt)
LC in OCLC, 11-3-95 (hdg.: Messerschmidt, Leopold, 1870-1911; usage: Leopold Messerschmidt, L. Messerschmidt)
Wikipedia online, viewed 20 September 2022 (Leopold Messerschmidt; orientalist; Heinrich Leopold Benno Messerschmidt was born on 29 August 1870 in Berlin; he died on 11 March 1911 in Charlottenburg; he studied ancient languages and theology; after 1893 he concentrated on assyriology; in 1896 he gained his PhD with a thesis on a Babylonian clay tablet; since October 1899, he worked at the Vorderasiatische Abteilung of the Berlin Museums; from 1901 he was a member of the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft)
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