Dietz Otto Edzard

Dietz Otto Edzard (28 August 1930 in Bremen – 2 June 2004 in Munich) was a German scholar of the Ancient Near East and grammarian of the Sumerian language.

Portrait of Dietz Otto Edzard

He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976[1] and an International member of the American Philosophical Society in 1996.[2]

Works

• Sumerian Grammar 2003
• Geschichte Mesopotamiens: Von den Sumerern bis zu Alexander dem Großen 2004
• Gudea and His Dynasty (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Early Periods) 1997
• "Gilgames und Huwawa" : Zwei Versionen der sumerischen Zedernwaldepisode nebst einer Edition von Version " B " 1993
• Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der präsargonischen und sargonischen Zeit (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B) 1977

Among his final works was a 55-page essay on Ancient Babylonian literature and religion published by the Czech Academy of Science in 2005.[3]

References

1. "Dietz Otto Edzard (1930 - 2004)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020.
2. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
3. Archiv Orientální: journal of the Czechoslovak Oriental Institute, ...: Volume 73; Volume 73 Československý orientální ústav v Praze 2005 "Der Beitrag von Dietz Otto Edzard (2004) über Altbabylonische Literatur und Religion (S. 485 - 640) gehört zu den letzten Werken dieses großen deutschen Assyriologen."