Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht

[English] **Hermann Vollrat (also Volrath or Vollrath) Hilprecht** (born in 1859 at Hohenerxleben, Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia; died in 1925 at Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA) was a German-American Assyriologist and Archaeologist. Literatur - References: - Eichler, B.: *Cuneiform Studies at Penn: From Hilprecht to Leichty*, in: A. Guinan et al. (ed.), *If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty* (= CM 31, Leiden 2006), p. 87-109. - Kuklick, B.: *“My Life's Shattered Work!”*, in: *Archaeology Odyssey*, May/June 2000, p. 26-39. - Kuklick, B.: *Puritans in Babylon. The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930*, Princeton 1996. - Edzard, D.O.E.: *“Hilprecht, H.V.”*, in: *Neue Deutsche Biographie*, vol. 9 (1972) p. 160 f. - Borger, R.: *“Hilprecht, H.V.”*, in: *Reallexikon der Assyriologie*, vol. 4 (1972 ff.) p. 410. - *Who is Who in America*, vol. 1 (1943) p. 566. - *Dictionary of American Biography*, vol. 9 (1932) p. 58 f.