EBELING, ERICH

(1886–1955)

   German Assyriologist. His main employment was as a teacher in secondary schools but he taught philology (not only Akkadian but also Aramaic, Sumerian, and Ugaritic) and comparative religious studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1921. He made large numbers of tablets available for study through his publications of cuneiform texts from Assur (Keilschrifttexte aus Assur juristischen Inhalts;Keilschrifttexte Assurs religiosen Inhalts; Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur). Only after the war and late in life, in 1947, was he given a full professorship.