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Stephen Langdon
1876–1937
An Assyriologist with a gift for bringing ancient Mesopotamian religion and literature into clearer view, he spent much of his career at Oxford and became a widely respected scholar of Sumerian and Babylonian texts.
2 Audiobooks
The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform
by Stephen Langdon
Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms
by Stephen Langdon
About the author
Born in Michigan in 1876, Stephen Herbert Langdon was an American-born scholar who later built his career in Britain. He studied at the University of Michigan and Union Theological Seminary, earned a Ph.D. at Columbia, and then continued specialized study in Paris and Leipzig before turning fully toward Assyriology.
Langdon became closely associated with the University of Oxford, where he served as Professor of Assyriology, and he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1931. His work focused especially on Sumerian and Babylonian religion, mythology, and literature, and he published widely on cuneiform texts that helped broaden English-language understanding of the ancient Near East.
He died in 1937. Although some of his conclusions have been revised by later scholarship, he remains an important early figure in the study and publication of Mesopotamian texts.