Samuel Noah Kramer

Samuel Noah Kramer (1897 - 1990) was a major assyriologist, specialist in Sumer and language sumérienne.

Biography

Samuel Noah Kramer was born in 1897 in Ukraine. In 1905 its family emigrates towards the the United States, with Philadelphia, where his/her father creates a Hebraic school. At the end of its studies, he exerts various trades and sign at the school of his father.

He resumes studies and impassions himself for the Egyptology. At the university of Pennsylvania, it becomes acquainted with Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, which worked to decipher shelves written in writing Cunéiforme dating from the Bronze Age. It obtains its doctorate in 1929.

Samuel Noah Kramer is known to have succeeded in gathering fragments of shelves telling the same history, and dispersed in various institutions during excavations. Its book the History starts in Sumer made known it of more many people. It tells there in an alive way a certain number of “first” of humanity, such as for example the first school and the first example of “licks”, the first stop of court, the first Noah etc

Kramer took its academic retirement in 1968, and continued to study and make known work on Sumer.

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