biography
| name: |
Kramer, Samuel Noah
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pronunciation:
[kraymer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1990)
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| biography:
| Sumerologist, writer, and museum curator, born near Kiev, Russia. He went to the USA with his family (1919), and was educated at Temple University (1921 BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (1929 PhD). His career as a leading authority on Sumerian language and literature began with a major expedition to Iraq (1930–1), during which he excavated and translated Sumerian tablets. He became curator of the tablet collections at Pennsylvania's University Museum (1950) as well as Clark research professor in Assyriology there (1950–68). His many publications include History Begins at Sumer (1959) and The Cradle of Civilization (1967). |
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