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- Jørgen Læssøe (26 June 1924 – 2 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 , , and . 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). The erudite LaessoeOmitted to say soBut Texts from the TownWere getting him down.At the close of the dayIn a fever he layAnd muttered, much vext,Sundry fragments of Text:'If a dog bark too oft...(?)If a Guard spit too soft...If a cock loudly crows...(If I stay here – who knows?... (?) (...))'If there’s ice in the river...(What’s wrong with my liver?)If an IPC Chicken!...!...(?!)'The plot starts to thicken.His final vexationWas this kind of equation:=(..... )(?)E-pig-ra(PH)-ist's (JAR)-gonRelating (?) to (S)ar-(GON)?(A kind of InscriptionThat beggars description!)He awoke with a cryOf: 'My typist must (DIE)!'To preserve him from CrimeThere arrived, just in time,His four hundreth Letter!And soon, he felt BETTER. Agatha Christie (en)
- Jørgen Læssøe, född 26 juni 1924 i Jægerspris, död 2 februari 1993, var en dansk assyriolog verksam vid Köpenhamns universitet. Efter studentexamen 1942 inledde Læssøe studier i jämförande språkvetenskap, men efter att ha bevistat professor Otto E. Ravns] föreläsningar i assyriologi sadlade han om till detta ämne . Han fick magisterkonferens i semitisk filologi 1948 och arbetade därefter i Chicago. Efter återkomsten till Danmark 1951 tjänstgjorde han som lektor vid Köpenhamns universitet. År 1956 blev han filosofie doktor på avhandlingen Studies on the Assyrian Ritual and Series bît rimki (1955). År 1957 ledde han, tillsammans med , de danska utgrävningarna i Tell Shemshâra i norra Irak, som resulterade i ett fynd av flera kilskriftstavlor från 1800 f.v.t. Samma år utnämndes han till professor i assyriologi vid Köpenhamns universitet, en befattning han innehade till 1987. Læssøe kallades till ledamot av Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 1970 och blev riddare av 1 graden av Dannebrogorden 1974. Han är gravsatt på i Köpenhamn. (sv)
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- Jørgen Læssøe (26 June 1924 – 2 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). (en)
- Jørgen Læssøe, född 26 juni 1924 i Jægerspris, död 2 februari 1993, var en dansk assyriolog verksam vid Köpenhamns universitet. Efter studentexamen 1942 inledde Læssøe studier i jämförande språkvetenskap, men efter att ha bevistat professor Otto E. Ravns] föreläsningar i assyriologi sadlade han om till detta ämne . Han fick magisterkonferens i semitisk filologi 1948 och arbetade därefter i Chicago. Efter återkomsten till Danmark 1951 tjänstgjorde han som lektor vid Köpenhamns universitet. År 1956 blev han filosofie doktor på avhandlingen Studies on the Assyrian Ritual and Series bît rimki (1955). År 1957 ledde han, tillsammans med , de danska utgrävningarna i Tell Shemshâra i norra Irak, som resulterade i ett fynd av flera kilskriftstavlor från 1800 f.v.t. Samma år utnämndes han till profe (sv)
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