Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868 Graudenz - 13 March 1947 Zeuthen

Zeuthen

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) was a German assyriologist.

From 1904 to 1921 Meissner was professor at the University of Breslau, then from 1921 professor of assyriology at the University of Berlin. His main work on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts appeared in 1920 and 1925 in two volumes. He also authored a major text with Dietrich Opitz

Dietrich Opitz

Dietrich Opitz was a German assyriologist and colleague of Bruno Meissner. He was the first to propose that Tell el Fakhariya was the location of Wassuganni, capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni from c.1500 BC. though this is now considered unlikely....

 on the palace of Nineveh.

He originated the Reallexikon der Assyriologie

Reallexikon der Assyriologie

The Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie , formerly Reallexikon der Assyriologie is a German-language encyclopedia on the Ancient Near East, founded by Bruno Meissner in 1922, reformed in 1966 by editor Ruth Opificius and publisher Wolfram von Soden.From 1972 to 2004...

 and papers from his legacy form a large part of Wolfram von Soden

Wolfram von Soden

Wolfram Freiherr von Soden was a German Assyriologist.-Life and work:Born in Berlin, von Soden studied under Benno Landsberger at Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1931, at age 23, with his thesis Der hymnisch-epische Dialekt des Akkadischen...

s Akkadisches Handwörterbuch

Akkadisches Handwörterbuch

The Akkadisches Handwörterbuch is a German lexicon of Akkadian language by Wolfram von Soden often abbreviated as "AHw" which is a standard work for study of the Ancient Near East...

(abbv. AHw). 3 vols (A-L, M-S, S-Z).