Adolf Leo Oppenheim

Adolf Leo Oppenheim (7 June 1904 – 21 July 1974) was an American assyriologist. He was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute from 1955 to 1974 and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago. Quotes Both the peacock and the chicken passed through [Mesopotamia] on their way westward[;] the Sumerians called the chicken ‘ the bird from Meluhha’ and the Syrians called it the ‘Akkadian bird’. Oppenheim AL 1977 Ancient Mesopotamia Chicago/London, Univ. Chicago Press.(p 317: quoted from Kazanas, N. (2009). Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues. Aditya Prakashan. ch. 7 External links Category:Academics from Austria Category:Historians from Austria Category:Non-fiction authors from Austria Category:Jews from Austria Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1904 births Category:1974 deaths Category:People from Vienna Category:University of Chicago faculty