Jørgen Læssøe

Jørgen Læssøe (26 June 19242 February 1993) was a Danish Assyriologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen. He directed the Danish excavations at Tell Shemshara, uncovering an Old Assyrian palace complex and a substantial cache of cuneiform texts known as the Shemshara Archives, which became his main object of study. He also worked on inscriptions from Max Mallowan's excavations at Nimrud, served as the field director of the Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia, and published a number of popular history books on Assyriology in Danish, including his ''magnum opus'', ''The People of Ancient Assyria'' (1963).

Læssøe studied under Otto E. Ravn and succeeded him as Professor Extraordinaire of Assyriology at Copenhagen in 1957. The only Assyriologist active in Denmark at the time of his appointment, the discipline is said to have "come of age" during his thirty-year tenure: his students included Assyriologists Ebbe Egede Knudsen, Aage Westenholz, and Jesper Eidem. Læssøe also worked in the United States, first on the ''Chicago Assyrian Dictionary'' (1948–1951) and then as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1953–1955 and 1966–1967). (..... )(?) E-pig-ra(PH)-ist's (JAR)-gon Relating (?) to (S)ar-(GON)?

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