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He was born at Braunschweig, and educated at Göttingen under Ewald. In 1858 he won a university prize for a treatise on the Ethiopian languages, and in 1863 became professor of theology at the University of Zürich. Subsequently he occupied chairs at Giessen (1870) and Jena (1873), and finally became professor of Oriental languages at Humboldt University, BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea. Though he turned first to biblical research, his chief achievements were in the field of AssyriologyThis article concerns the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom. For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, see Assyrian. Assyria a country named after its original capital city, Asshur on the Tigris, was originally a colony of Babylonia, a, in which he was a pioneer in Germany and acquired an international reputation.

His publications include:

• Studien zur Kritik und Erklärung der biblischen Urgeschichte (1863)
• the 8th edition of De WetteWilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette ( January 12, 1780 June 16, 1849), was a German theologian. He was born at Ulla, near Weimar, where his father was pastor. He was sent to the gymnasium at Weimar, then at the height of its literary fame. Here he was much's Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1869)
• Die assyr.-babyl. Keilinschriften (1872)
• Die Keilinschriften und das Alt. Test. (1872; 3rd ed. by Zimmern and Winckler, 1901-1902)
• Keilinschriften und Geschichtsforschung (1878)
• Die Höllenfahrt der Istar (text, trans., notes, 1874)
• Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung der altbabylonischen Kultur (1884)
• in conjunction with other scholars, Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek (1877).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.