Erica Reiner (1924–2005)
Auteur de Astral magic in Babylonia
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Crédit image: Erica Reiner [credit: University of Chicago]
Œuvres de Erica Reiner
Your thwarts in pieces, your mooring rope cut : poetry from Babylonia and Assyria (1985) 8 exemplaires
Language, Literature and History: Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (American Oriental… (1987) 4 exemplaires
The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Vol. 11, N, Part 1 (1980) 3 exemplaires
Babylonian Planetary Omens 1: Enuma Anu Enlil Tablet 63: The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa 2 exemplaires
An Adventure of Great Dimension : The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (2002) 2 exemplaires
Materialien zum sumerischen Lexikon 11 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1924-08-04
- Date de décès
- 2005-12-31
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Hungary (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Budapest, Hungary
- Lieu du décès
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- University of Chicago (PhD)
Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes
University of Budapest - Professions
- professor
Assyriologist
scholar
dictionary editor
author
translator - Relations
- Breasted, James Henry (colleague)
Oppenheim, A. Leo (colleague)
Frankfort, Henri (colleague) - Organisations
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Courte biographie
- Erica Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary. She completed her undergraduate degree in linguistics at the University of Budapest in 1948. After studying the Elamite, Sumerian, and Akkadian languages at the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris, she received a Diplôme. In 1952, she came to the USA for further graduate study at the University of Chicago and received her Ph.D. in 1955. Dr. Reiner joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1956 and eventually became the John A. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the University's Oriental Institute. Planning and documentation for an Assyrian Dictionary had been underway at the Institute for many years when Dr. Reiner arrived. Together with A. Leo Oppenheim, Dr. Reiner led the team to publish the first of what would become 23 volumes in 1956. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary revolutionized the study of the world’s oldest written languages, but it was more than a list of words and their translations; it also served as a cultural encyclopedia of Mesopotamian civilization. Dr. Reiner took over the project at Prof. Oppenheim's death in 1974. She also wrote numerous books and scholarly articles. Her understanding of Babylonian history and science was legendary among scholars. Your Thwarts in Pieces, Your Mooring Rope Cut: Poetry from Babylonia and Assyria, a collection of essays, was published in 1985. Astral Magic in Babylonia (1995) examined Babylonian magical practices that made use of plants, stones and the celestial bodies. After her retirement in 1996, Dr. Reiner continued to contribute to the Dictionary -- working on the project for a total of 44 years.
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- Membres
- 76
- Popularité
- #233,522
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
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- ISBN
- 13
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