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'''Adam Falkenstein''' (17 September 1906 – 15 October 1966) was a German Assyriologist.
He was born in Planegg, near Munich in Bavaria and died in Heidelberg.
== Life == Falkenstein studied Assyriology in Munich and Leipzig. He was involved primarily with cuneiform, particularly discoveries in Uruk, and with the Sumerians and their language. From 1930 onward, Falkenstein taught as a professor of Assyriology at the Göttingen University. In 1940 he accepted a teaching assignment at Heidelberg University as a professor of semitic languages. He joined the Nazi Party in 1939. In 1941 he flew to Baghdad with Fritz Grobba when Haj Amin al-Husseini and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani organized a brief, pro-German coup supported by weapons shipments from the German Reich. Afterward he was employed by the German foreign service in Turkey. Nothing is known about his de-nazification.
From 1939 to 1944 he was editor of the professional journal ''"Orientalische Literaturzeitung"''; from 1950 until his death in 1966 he edited the ''"Zeitschrift für Assyriologie"''. In the early 1950s he resumed teaching at Heidelberg University.
== Literary works == * ''Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Uruk'' (1931) * ''Haupttypen der sumerischen Beschwörungen'' (1931) * ''Die archaische Keilschrifttexte aus Uruk'' (1936) * ''Topographie von Uruk'' (1941) * ''Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von Lagaš'' (1949-1950) * ''Sumerische und Akkadische Hymnen und Gebete'' (1953, with Wolfram von Soden)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amazon.com |url=https://www.amazon.com/Books-Adam-Falkenstein/s?rh=n:283155,p_27:Adam+Falkenstein |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=www.amazon.com |language=en-us}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{DNB-Portal|118685945}}
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