Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German historian and orientalist
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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt
- Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt (11 March 1861, Hamburg – 24 July 1938, Innsbruck) was a German orientalist and historian.
- He specialized in Urartian research, and was co-author of Corpus Inscriptionum Chaldicarum, a corpus of Urartian inscriptions. After receiving a degree in law at the University of Göttingen (1883), his focus turned to the history of ancient cultures — about which, he obtained a second doctorate from the University of Berlin (1886).
- Afterwards, he served as a research assistant in the Egyptology department at the Royal Museums of Berlin.
- In 1893 he obtained his habilitation and started work as a lecturer in ancient history.
- During his time spent at Berlin, his influences were Otto Hirschfeld, Friedrich Delitzsch and Theodor Mommsen.In 1898/99 he took part on an expedition to Armenia, where he performed extensive studies of Urartian inscriptions.
- In 1901 he was named an associate professor of ancient history at the University of Berlin.
- He later travelled to England, where in 1911 he became a professor of Greek history at the University of Liverpool, followed by an appointment as a representative to the chair of ancient history at the University of Oxford (1913/14).
- In 1915/16 he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Constantinople.
- In 1918 he relocated to Innsbruck, where he taught classes until 1935.In 1901 he became the first editor of Klio.
- Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, a journal of ancient history that he continued to edit until 1936.
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