Hildegard Lewy
Hildegard Lewy ({{nee}} 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.{{cite news |title=Dr. Hildegard Lewy, Assyriologist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/10/10/archives/dr-hildegard-lewy-assyriologist-dies.html |accessdate=5 August 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=10 October 1967}}{{cite journal |last1=Weidner |first1=Ernst |title=Hildegard Lewy. (17. Oktober 1903 bis 8. Oktober 1967) |journal=Archiv für Orientforschung |date=1968 |volume=22 |pages=212–213 |issn=0066-6440 |language=German |jstor=41637287 }}{{cite web |title=Lewy, Hildegard |url=http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=lewy_hildegard |website=CDLI Wiki |publisher=University Of Oxford |accessdate=5 August 2019 |date=24 April 2008}}
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
- {{cite journal |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |last2=Lewy |first2=Julius |title=The origin of the week and the oldest west Asiatic calendar |journal=Hebrew Union College Annual |date=1942 |volume=17 |pages=1–152c |issn=0360-9049|jstor=23506437 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |title=Studies in Assyro-Babylonian Mathematics and Metrology |journal=Orientalia |date=1949 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=40–67 |issn=0030-5367|jstor=43072613 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |editor1-last=I. E. S. |editor1-first=Edwards |editor2-last=C. J. |editor2-first=Gadd |editor3-last=N. G. L. |editor3-first=Hammond |title=The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East |date=1971 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |chapter=CHAPTER XXIV(b) - ANATOLIA IN THE OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD}}
- {{cite book |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |editor1-last=I. E. S. |editor1-first=Edwards |editor2-last=C. J. |editor2-first=Gadd |editor3-last=N. G. L. |editor3-first=Hammond |title=The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 1, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East |date=1971 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |chapter= CHAPTER XXV - ASSYRIA, c. 2600–1816 B.C.}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |title=Old Assyrian Texts in the University Museum Philadelphia |journal=Hebrew Union College Annual |date=1968 |volume=39 |pages=1–33}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |title=A Contribution to the Historical Geography of the Nuzi Texts |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |date=1968 |volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=150–162 |doi=10.2307/597909 |issn=0003-0279|jstor=597909 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lewy |first1=Hildegard |title=Old Assyrian Texts in the University Museum Philadelphia |journal=Hebrew Union College Annual |date=1969–1970 |volume=40-41 |pages=45–85}}
References
{{reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewy, Hildegard}}
Category:Writers from Cluj-Napoca
Category:University of Giessen alumni
Category:Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion faculty