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Adam Falkenstein (September 17, 1906 – October 15, 1966) was a German Assyriologist. He was born in Planegg, near Munich in Bavaria and died in Heidelberg. == Life == Falkenstein studied Assyriology in Munich and Leipzig. He was involved primarily with cuneiform, particularly discoveries in Uruk, and with the Sumerians and their language. From 1930 onward, Falkenstein taught as a professor of Assyriology at the Göttingen University. In 1940 he accepted a teaching assignment at Heidelberg University as a professor of semitic languages. He joined the Nazi Party in 1939. In 1941 he flew to Baghdad with Fritz Grobba when Haj Amin al-Husseini and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani organized a brief, pro-German coup supported by weapons shipments from the German Reich. Afterward he was employed by the German foreign service in Turkey. Nothing is known about his de-nazification. From 1939 to 1944 he was the publisher of the professional journal ''"Orientalische Literaturzeitung"''; from 1950 until his death in 1966 he published the ''"Zeitschrift für Assyriologie"''. In the early 1950s he resumed activities at Heidelberg University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Falkenstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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