University of Copenhagen (MA) University of Chicago (PhD)
Known for
The Treasures of DarknessSumerian King List
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields
Assyriology
Institutions
University of Chicago Harvard University
Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen (Danish:[ˈtsʰɒːkʰilˈjɑkʌpsn̩]; 7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East.
Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen (Danish: [ˈtsʰɒːkʰil ˈjɑkʌpsn̩]; 7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian...
for his Slave Trilogy ThorkildJacobsen (1904–1993), renowned historian specialising in Assyriology and Sumerian literature Thorkild Roose (1874 – 1961)...
University of California press. p. 23. ISBN 9780520248427. OCLC 889165092. ThorkildJacobsen (1997). The Harps that once--: Sumerian poetry in translation, pp...
Institute of the University of Chicago team led by Henri Frankfort with ThorkildJacobsen, Pinhas Delougaz, Gordon Loud, and Seton Lloyd. The expedition's field...
her (without real proof) with images of a sea serpent or dragon. ThorkildJacobsen and Walter Burkert both argue for a connection with the Akkadian word...
a literary language familiar mainly only to scholars and scribes. ThorkildJacobsen has argued that there is little break in historical continuity between...
Asmar and Khafãjah (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939). ThorkildJacobsen, "God of Worshipper". In Essays in Ancient Civilizations Presented...
doi:10.21769/bioprotoc.1010557. ISSN 2331-8325. S2CID 239256795. ThorkildJacobsen (23 September 1997). The Harps that once: Sumerian poetry in translation...
an Oriental Institute of Chicago team led by Henri Frankfort with ThorkildJacobsen, Conrad Preusser and Pinhas Delougaz. For two seasons, in 1937 and...
Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of ThorkildJacobsen, edited by Tzvi Abusch, University Park, USA: Penn State University...
translated as meaning "mountain", "hill", "foothills" or "piedmont". ThorkildJacobsen extrapolated the translation in his later career to mean literally...
Kesh have been suggested as well as Gišgi. Kesh was suggested by ThorkildJacobsen before excavations began. The Euphrates was the city's highway and...
Tiamat, but this interpretation was refuted as unsubstantiated by ThorkildJacobsen in his essay "Sumerian Mythology: A Review Article" and is not mentioned...
myth to its present form with the latest translations presented by ThorkildJacobsen, Miguel Civil and Joachim Krecher. The hymn, noted by Kramer as one...
Enlil in Early Mesopotamia. pp. 6–22. Retrieved 20 December 2020. Jacobsen, Thorkild (1989). "The líl of En-líl". In Berens, H.; Loding, D. M.; Roth, M...
"The Old Babylonian Eduba" in Sumerological Studies in Honor of ThorkildJacobsen on His Seventieth Birthday, June 7, 1974, edited by S. J. Lieberman...
literature. D. Appleton and company. p. 26. Retrieved 27 June 2011. ThorkildJacobsen (1978). The treasures of darkness: a history of Mesopotamian religion...
figure is more generally identified as the goddess of love and war: ThorkildJacobsen identified the figure as Inanna in an analysis based on the existence...
an elusive World Wonder traced. (Oxford University Press, 2013). ThorkildJacobsen and Seton Lloyd.Sennacherib’s Aqueduct at JerwanOriental Institute...