# Adam Falkenstein

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**Adam Falkenstein** (17 September 1906 – 15 October 1966) was a German [Assyriologist](/source/Assyriologist).

He was born in [Planegg](/source/Planegg), near [Munich](/source/Munich) in [Bavaria](/source/Bavaria) and died in [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg).

## Life

Falkenstein studied [Assyriology](/source/Assyriology) in [Munich](/source/Munich) and [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig). He was involved primarily with [cuneiform](/source/Cuneiform), particularly discoveries in [Uruk](/source/Uruk), and with the [Sumerians](/source/Sumer) and their [language](/source/Sumerian_language). From 1930 onward, Falkenstein taught as a [professor](/source/Professor) of Assyriology at the [Göttingen University](/source/G%C3%B6ttingen_University). In 1940 he accepted a teaching assignment at [Heidelberg University](/source/Heidelberg_University) as a professor of [semitic languages](/source/Semitic_languages). He joined the [Nazi Party](/source/Nazi_Party) in 1939. In 1941 he flew to [Baghdad](/source/Baghdad) with [Fritz Grobba](/source/Fritz_Grobba) when [Haj Amin al-Husseini](/source/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini) and [Rashid Ali al-Gaylani](/source/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](/source/Turkey). Nothing is known about his [de-nazification](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Wolfram_von_Soden))[1]

## References

1. ["Amazon.com"](https://www.amazon.com/Books-Adam-Falkenstein/s?rh=n:283155,p_27:Adam+Falkenstein). *www.amazon.com*. Retrieved 2022-03-09.

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