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    Julius (Jules) Oppert (9 July 1825 – 21 August 1905) was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents. After studying at Heidelberg...
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  • Look up oppert in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oppert is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Julius Oppert (1825–1905), French-German...
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    "A-ha-ab-bu Sir-ila-a-a" with "Ahab of Israel" was first proposed by Julius Oppert in his 1865 Histoire des Empires de Chaldée et d'Assyrie. Eberhard Schrader...
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    a brief visit in 1850 before abandoning the site. Fulgence Fresnel, Julius Oppert and Felix Thomas heavily excavated Babylon from 1852 to 1854. Much of...
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  • he returned to Europe in 1894. Oppert was born in Hamburg on 30 July 1836 and counted Julius Oppert and Ernst Oppert among his eleven siblings. He obtained...
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  • crew of 20 men for a number of months. Austen Henry Layard and also Julius Oppert dug some trenches there in the early 1852 though the finds were lost...
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    Jacob Bernays (1824–1881), German philologist and philosophical writer Julius Oppert (1825–1905), French-German Assyriologist Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877)...
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    continued by W.K. Loftus, who also opened trenches at Susa, as well as by Julius Oppert on behalf of the French government. But it was only in the last quarter...
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    removing Korean trade barriers. Oppert was born into a wealthy banker family in Hamburg. Two of his brothers, Julius and Gustav, became leading German...
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    visited Europe in 1855, and studied with orientalists there: Julius Mohl and Julius Oppert in Paris, and Friedrich von Spiegel at the University of Erlangen...
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    were soon joined by two other decipherers: young German-born scholar Julius Oppert, and versatile British Orientalist William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1857...
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    be found to explain the syllabic values given to particular signs. Julius Oppert suggested that a non-Semitic language had preceded Akkadian in Mesopotamia...
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    Britannica article cites the following bibliography: Contracts in general: Julius Oppert and Joachim Menant, Documents juridiques de l'Assyrie et de la Chaldée...
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  • Excerpted from "Great Inscription in the Palace of Khorsabad", tr. Julius Oppert, in Records of the Past, vol. 9. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1877...
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    Thiele 1951, p. 95 n. 13 Histoire des Empires de Chaldée et d'Assyrie, Julius Oppert, 1865, p.140, "La grande importance de ce texte réside dans la citation...
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  • Oriental History at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Julius Oppert (French-German, 1825–1905), linguist who argued that the language spoken...
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  • introduced to Assyrian and Babylonian studies by way of influence from Julius Oppert. Following graduation, he became a lecturer in Syriac languages at the...
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    architect. The first of these expeditions was led by Fulgence Fresnel and Julius Oppert, commencing in 1851. Thomas was expected to describe the monuments and...
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    contemporaneous with their corresponding terms in French linguistics. In 1877, Julius Oppert introduced digraphique to describe languages written in cuneiform syllabaries...
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    broke through the class barrier". France-Asia relations Felix Thomas Julius Oppert Orientalism Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (Society for...
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    Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Edmond Jurien de la Gravière, Julius Oppert, Camille Doucet, and many other notable personages. Other governments...
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    student at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Assyriologist Julius Oppert. In 1890/91 as a member of the French Archaeological Mission of Cairo...
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    as the same figure. In the same year as Duncker's proposal (1857), Julius Oppert and Joseph Bonomi the Younger had for instance already identified Sargon...
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  • Smith, Professor Sayce, Professor Shrader, and MM. Joachim Menant, Julius Oppert, and Francois Lenormant – D[iana] W[hite], 1897 Translators had been...
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    of the Sumerian language was established in the late 19th century by Julius Oppert and Henry Rawlinson from which many different theories were proposed...
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  • Catholic University of Leuven (French: Louvain) but went to Paris to hear Julius Oppert, Émile Egger, and Henri Patin, and to Berlin, Utrecht, and Leyden, where...
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    Hurufiyya movement List of Iraqi artists List of Iraqi women artists Julius Oppert Felix Thomas Major Iraqi public monument/ statues and public buildings...
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    deciphering of the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. He studied under Julius Oppert in Paris, and from 1895, was associated with duties performed at the...
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  • for his studies on cuneiform inscriptions. He also collaborated with Julius Oppert. He was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1887, and died in...
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  • needed] Alexander Nove, economic historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202) Julius Oppert, Assyriologist[citation needed] Michael Oren, Israeli historian[citation...
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