Albert T. Olmstead Explained

Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (March 23, 1880  - April 11, 1945) was an American historian and academic, who specialized in Assyriology.^[1]

Olmstead was born in 1880 in New York, and died in 1945 in Chicago.^[2]

He was Professor of Oriental History at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.^[2] Among his doctoral students was Neilson C. Debevoise, later an influential historian of the Parthian Empire.^[3]

Works

• Olmstead. Albert T.. 1908. Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria. PhD. Cornell University. 2027/wu.89095897237. free.
• Book: Olmstead, Albert T.. 3. 1916. Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study. The University of Missouri Studies: Social Science Series. Columbia, Missouri. University of Missouri.
• Olmstead. Albert T.. 3. 1918. Urbana, Illinois. War Committee of the University of Illinois.
• Book: Olmstead, Albert T.. 3. 1923. History of Assyria. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York and London.
• Book: Olmstead, Albert T.. 3. 1931. History of Palestine and Syria to the Macedonian Conquest. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York and London.
• Book: Olmstead, Albert T.. 3. 1942. Jesus in the Light of History. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York.
• Book: Olmstead, Albert T.. 3. 1948. History of the Persian Empire. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.

Articles

• Olmstead. Albert T.. Source study and the Biblical text. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 30. 1. October 1913. 1–35. 10.1086/369728. 170786111.
• Olmstead. Albert T.. 3. July 1918. Oriental imperialism. The American Historical Review. 23. 4. 755–762. 10.2307/1836330. 1836330.
• Olmstead. Albert T.. 3. January 1920. Kashshites, Assyrians, and the balance of power. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 36. 2. 120–153. 10.1086/369899. 2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t4cp4gj15. 170645279. free.
• Olmstead. Albert T.. 3. April 1938. Babylonian Astronomy : Historical Sketch. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 55. 2. 113–129 . 10.1086/amerjsemilanglit.55.2.3088090 . 170628425 .

Further reading

• Book: Meade, C. Wade. 1974. Road to Babylon: Development of U.S. Assyriology. Leiden. E. J. Brill. 93–97. 9004038582.
• Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck. Matthew W.. Stolper. 1999 . 1400452.
• Wilson. John A.. 1945. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 1880–1945. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 99. 99. 3–4. 10.1086/BASOR1355207. 1355207. 167172277.
• Wilson. John A.. 1946. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 1880–1945. Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 5. 1. 1–6. 10.1086/370766. 542451. 161621392.

Notes and References

1. John A. Wilson: Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 1880–1945. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Vol. 5 (1946), No. 1 (Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead Memorial Issue), S. 1–6 (Digitalisat in JSTOR).
2. Web site: History of Assyria - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. oi.uchicago.edu.
3. Encyclopedia: Olbrycht. M. J.. Nikonorov. V. P.. 2015. Deveboise, Neilson Carel. Encyclopaedia Iranica. online.