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C. J. Gadd

Cyril John Gadd, CBE, FBA, FSA (2 July 1893 – 2 December 1969) was a British Assyriologist, Sumerologist, and curator. He was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum from 1948 to 1955, and Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1955 to 1960. Having served in the British Army during the First World War, he joined the British Museum after demobilisation and also worked on excavations at Ur, Carchemish, Alalakh and Nimrud. Having risen to Keeper, he left the British Museum to enter academia, and was appointed professor emeritus on his retirement in 1961.[1][2][3][4]

Selected works edit

  • Edwards, I. E. S; Gadd, C. J; Hammond, N. G. L; Sollberger, E, eds. (1973), The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 2. Part 1, History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1800-1380 B.C, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Edwards, I. E. S; Gadd, C. J; Hammond, N. G. L; Sollberger, E, eds. (1975), The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 2. Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1380-1000 B.C, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0511466773

References edit

  1. ^ "Gadd, Cyril John, (2 July 1893–2 Dec. 1969), Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Civilizations, London University, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1955–60, Professor Emeritus, 1961". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U56938. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
  2. ^ Dalley, Stephanie (10 September 2020). "Gadd, Cyril John (1893–1969), Assyriologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.107283. ISBN 9780198614128. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. ^ Mallowan, Max (1971). "Cyril John Gadd" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy (56): 362–402. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  4. ^ Wiseman, D. J. (1970). "Obituaries: Cyril John Gadd". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 33 (3): 592–598. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00126588. JSTOR 614525.

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Cultural offices
Preceded by Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
British Museum

1948–1955
Succeeded by
I. E. S. Edwards
(Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities)
Succeeded by
Richard David Barnett
(Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities)

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