Bidspirit auction | Friedrich Delitzsch “Babel and Bible”,

Friedrich Delitzsch “Babel and Bible”, 50 illustr., Leipzig, 1903, in German, Jewish ex-libris - Friedrich Delitzsch “Babel and Bible”, 50 illustr., Leipzig, 1903, in German, Jewish ex-libris J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1903, 78 pp., 50 illustrations, not cut copy. Soft cover, 22 x 15 cm. Condition: ex-library stamps; covers and last small block detached; some soiling and chips to edges of cover; yellow paper. Weight: 150 gr. Friedrich Delitzsch (3 September 1850 – 19 December 1922) was a German Assyriologist. He was the son of Lutheran theologian Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890). Born in Erlangen, he studied in Leipzig and Berlin, gaining his habilitation in 1874 as a lecturer of Semitic languages and Assyriology in Leipzig. In 1885 he became a full professor at Leipzig, afterwards serving as a professor at the Universities of Breslau (1893) and Berlin (1899). He was co-founder of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) and director of the Vorderasiatische Abteilung (Near Eastern Department) of the Royal Museums.