Our navigation bar is loading . . .

 


 

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries

Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.  




 

JCSM's Top 1000 Christian Sites - Free Traffic Sharing Service!


Do you need volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?

Click here and add this page to your favorites!

Return to the JCSM Study Center!

Encyclopedia Britannica



OPPERT, JULIUS (1825-19o5)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 140 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OPPERT, JULIUS (1825-19o5) , German Assyriologist, was born at Hamburg, of Jewish parents, on the 9th of July 1825. After studying at
Heidelberg
 ,
Bonn
  and Berlin, he graduated at Kiel in 1847; and in the following year went to France, where he was teacher of German at Laval and at Reims. His leisure was given to Oriental studies, in which he had made
great
  progress in Germany, and in 1852 he joined Fresnel's archaeological expedition to
Mesopotamia
 . On his return in 1854 he occupied himself in digesting the results of the expedition in so far as they concerned cuneiform
inscriptions
 , and published an important
work
  upon them (Dechriffrement des
inscriptions
  cuneiformes, 1861). In 1857 he was appointed professor of Sanscrit in the school of languages connected with the National Library in Paris, and in this capacity he produced a Sanscrit grammar; but his attention was chiefly given to Assyrian and cognate subjects, and he was especially prominent in establishing the Turanian character of the language originally spoken in Assyria. In 1869 Oppert was appointed professor of Assyrian philology and archaeology at the College de France. In 1865 he publisheda history of -Assyria and
Chaldaea
  in the light of the results of the different exploring expeditions. At a later period he devoted much attention to the language and antiquities of ancient Media, writing Le Peuple et la langue des Medes (1879). He died in Paris on the 21st of August 1905. Oppert was a voluminous writer upon Assyrian mythology and jurisprudence, and other subjects connected with the ancient civilizations of the
East
 . Among his other works may be mentioned: Elements de la grammaire assyrienne (1868); L'Immortalite de l'dme chez les Chaldeens, (1895); Salomon et ses successeurs (1877); and, with J.
Menant
 , Doctrines juridiques de l'Assyrie et de la Chaldee (1877).


End of Article: OPPERT, JULIUS (1825-19o5)


If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/NUM_ORC/OPPERT_JULIUS_1825_19o5_.html">
OPPERT, JULIUS (1825-19o5)
</a>
(Previous)
OPPENHEIM 		(Next)
OPPIAN (Gr. 'Oaacavos)

 


 
 


JCSM was founded in 1997 and exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA  92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email

JCSM is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Copyright © 1997-2012.
 

 

Sponsored Advertisements

Online First Aid and CPR Certification  .  DHA Solutions  .  PB Happy Hour Specials  .  Improvising Made Easy For Guitar and Bass  .  The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained  .  Home Equity Loans  .  First Aid and CPR Online  .  San Diego Music Lessons  .  10,000 Wise Quotes and Spiritual Sayings  .  Blow Up Your Site (For Free!)  .  San Diego DUI Lawyers  .  Jason Gastrich  .  Jordan Faith Gastrich  .  Divorce Secrets Revealed  .  Post Your Ad Link Free  .  San Diego Soccer Training  .  JCSM  .  Download Sermons  .  Custom Religious Banners, Build A Sign  .  Christian Singles Dating  .  Christian T-Shirts  .  Healing Christian Prayer  .  Bumper Authority  .  Personalized Blogs and Email  .  San Diego Haircuts  .  The Do the Math Diet  .  Stop Twitter Spam  .  Christian Conservative Work at Home Network  .  The Website of the Lord