Albert T. Olmstead

Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (March 23, 1880 – April 11, 1945) was an American historian and academic, who specialized in Assyriology.[1]

Olmstead was born in 1880 in New York, and died in 1945 in Chicago.[2]

He was Professor of Oriental History at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.[2] Among his doctoral students was Neilson C. Debevoise, later an influential historian of the Parthian Empire.[3]

Works

• Olmstead, Albert T. (1908). Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria (PhD). Cornell University. hdl:2027/wu.89095897237.
• ——— (1916). Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study. The University of Missouri Studies: Social Science Series. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri.
• ——— (1918). The New Arab Kingdom and the Fate of the Muslim World . Urbana, Illinois: War Committee of the University of Illinois – via Wikisource.
• ——— (1923). History of Assyria. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• ——— (1931). History of Palestine and Syria to the Macedonian Conquest. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• ——— (1942). Jesus in the Light of History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• ——— (1948). History of the Persian Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Articles

• Olmstead, Albert T. (October 1913). "Source study and the Biblical text". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 30 (1): 1–35.
• ——— (July 1918). "Oriental imperialism". The American Historical Review. 23 (4): 755–762.
• ——— (January 1920). "Kashshites, Assyrians, and the balance of power". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 36 (2): 120–153.

References

1. John A. Wilson: Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 1880–1945. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Vol. 5 (1946), No. 1 (Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead Memorial Issue), S. 1–6 (Digitalisat in JSTOR).
2. "History of Assyria - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago". oi.uchicago.edu.
3. Olbrycht, M. J.; Nikonorov, V. P. (2015). "Deveboise, Neilson Carel". Encyclopaedia Iranica (online ed.).

Further reading

• Meade, C. Wade (1974). Road to Babylon: Development of U.S. Assyriology. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 93–97. ISBN 9004038582.
• Stolper, Matthew W. (1999). "Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck". American National Biography (online ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400452. (subscription required)
• Wilson, John A. (1945). "Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 1880–1945". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (99): 3–4. JSTOR 1355207.
• Wilson, John A. (1946). "Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, 1880–1945". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 5 (1): 1–6. JSTOR 542451.

External links

• Works by Albert T. Olmstead at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Albert T. Olmstead at Internet Archive