Hildegard Lewy Explained
Hildegard Lewy (Schlesinger; 17 November 1903 – 8 October 1969) was an Assyriologist and academic. Having originally trained as a physicist, upon her marriage to Julius Lewy she moved into Assyriology; she specialised in cuneiform texts and Babylonian mathematics. She translated, commented on, and published a number of texts from Nuzi and Mari. She also contributed two chapters to The Cambridge Ancient History. She was a professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[1] [2] [3]
Born in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Lewy was the daughter of Ludwig Schlesinger, a mathematician. She studied at the University of Giessen, and completed a doctorate in physics in 1926.
Selected works
- Lewy . Hildegard . Lewy . Julius . The origin of the week and the oldest west Asiatic calendar . . 1942 . 17 . 1–152c . 0360-9049. 23506437 .
- Lewy . Hildegard . Studies in Assyro-Babylonian Mathematics and Metrology . Orientalia . 1949 . 18 . 1 . 40–67 . 0030-5367. 43072613 .
- Book: Lewy . Hildegard . I. E. S. . Edwards . C. J. . Gadd . N. G. L. . Hammond . The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East . 1971 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . CHAPTER XXIV(b) - ANATOLIA IN THE OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD.
- Book: Lewy . Hildegard . I. E. S. . Edwards . C. J. . Gadd . N. G. L. . Hammond . The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East . 1971 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . CHAPTER XXV - ASSYRIA, c. 2600–1816 B.C..
- Lewy . Hildegard . Old Assyrian Texts in the University Museum Philadelphia . . 1968 . 39 . 1–33.
- Lewy . Hildegard . A Contribution to the Historical Geography of the Nuzi Texts . . 1968 . 88 . 1 . 150–162 . 10.2307/597909 . 0003-0279. 597909 .
- Lewy . Hildegard . Old Assyrian Texts in the University Museum Philadelphia . . 1969–1970 . 40-41 . 45–85.
Notes and References
- News: Dr. Hildegard Lewy, Assyriologist, Dies . 5 August 2019 . The New York Times . 10 October 1967.
- Weidner . Ernst . Hildegard Lewy. (17. Oktober 1903 bis 8. Oktober 1967) . . 1968 . 22 . 212–213 . 0066-6440 . German . 41637287 .
- Web site: Lewy, Hildegard . CDLI Wiki . University Of Oxford . 5 August 2019 . 24 April 2008.