Haupt, Paul, 1858-1926

Paul Haupt was a noted philologist and a professor of Semitic languages at The Johns Hopkins University.

He was born at Gorlitz, Germany, Nov. 25, 1858 and received the Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig in 1878. Haupt was appointed professor of Semitic languages at Hopkins in 1883, a position he held for forty-three years. At Hopkins, he also served as director of the Oriental seminary. Haupt was recognized as a leading Assyriologist and did extensive research in the district where the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were supposed to have stood. Haupt's published works include "Sumerian Family Laws," (1879); "The Akkadian Language," (1883); and he was the editor of the polychrome Bible in 1898. Paul Haupt died in Baltimore, MD, Dec. 15, 1926.

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