Samuel Noah Kramer

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American Assyriologist (1897-1990)

United States WritersLived 1897 to 1990 · aged 93

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Samuel Noah Kramer was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie University and the University of Pennsylvania, all in Philadelphia.

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The Lament for Ur at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Lament was one of several literary works that Kramer studied.

Awards 3

1963Athenaeum Literary Award

1956Athenaeum Literary Award

1937Guggenheim Fellowship

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