Wolfram Von Soden (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolfram Freiherr von Soden (19 June 1908, Berlin - 6 October 1996, Munster) was a leading German Assyriologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at Leipzig, was appointed a professor at Gottingen University, served the Nazi regime during the Third Reich, and later returned to the academy at Vienna and finally for many years at the University in Munster, where he died. Von Soden studied under Benno Landsberger at Leipzig and received a doctorate in 1931, at age 23, with his thesis Der hymnisch-epische Dialekt des Akkadischen (The Hymnic-Epic Dialect of Akkadian). In 1936, he was appointed a professor of Assyriology and Arabic studies in a newly created position at the University of Gottingen. While Landsberger was obliged to leave Germany due to National-Socialist racial policy, von Soden joined the Sturmabteilung (the SA, the so-called brownshirts) in 1934.