(1935– )
German archaeologist and Assyriologist, based at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Since 1976 he has been the leader of the Archaic Tablets of Uruk project, which aims to publish some 5,000 tablets from the early stages of writing that have been found at Uruk, a task that began with the work of Adam Falkenstein (Zeichenliste der archaischen Texte aus Uruk, 1987 [with M. W. Green]; Die Lexikalischen Listen der Archaischen Texte aus Uruk, 1993 [with R. K. Englund]; Archaic administrative texts from Uruk: The early campaigns, 1994 [with R. K. Englund]; Archaische Verwaltungstexte aus Uruk: Die Heidelberger Sammlung, 2001; and Archaische Verwaltungstexte aus Uruk: Vorderasiatisches Museum II, 2005). Acatalog of all the texts is in preparation.
Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. EdwART. 2012.