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Jacobsen, Thorkild was born on June 7, 1904 in Copenhagen. Son of Christian Laurits and Gerda (Jensen) Jacobsen.
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The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized" world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning. The authors describe and analyze the spiritual life of three ancient civilizations: the Egyptians, whose thinking was profoundly influenced by the daily rebirth of the sun and the annual rebirth of the Nile; the Mesopotamians, who believed the stars, moon, and stones were all citizens of a cosmic state; and the Hebrews, who transcended prevailing mythopoeic thought with their cosmogony of the will of God. In the concluding chapter the Frankforts show that the Greeks, with their intellectual courage, were the first culture to discover a realm of speculative thought in which myth was overcome.
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The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poems—quite possibly the earliest poems extant—are those that have fascinated humanity since the time people first began to spin stories: the longings of young lovers; courage in battle; joy at the birth of a child; the pleasures of drink and song.
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Jacobsen, Thorkild was born on June 7, 1904 in Copenhagen. Son of Christian Laurits and Gerda (Jensen) Jacobsen.
Master of Arts, University Copenhagen, 1927. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Copenhagen, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1929.
Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1988.
He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East. Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen (Danish pronunciation: yahkobsen) received 1927 an Master of Arts He became a Field Assyriologist for the Iraq Expedition of the The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (1929-1937) and in 1946 became Director of the Oriental Institute. He served as Dean of the Humanities Division (1948-1951), as an Editor of the Assyrian Dictionary (1955-1959), and as Professor of Social Institutions (1946-1962).
In 1962, Jacobsen became a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, where he remained until his retirement in 1974.
Beyond being an expert translator, he was a brilliant interpreter whose insights led to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the institutions and normative references of Sumerian and Akkadian culture. Jacobsen retired as a professor of Assyriology at Harvard University in 1974.
In 1974 he served as a Visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles where he helped develop a strong Assyriology program Doctor Jacobsen served 1993 as president of the American Oriental Society, an organization of scholars.
He was 88 years of age when he died in Bradford, New Hampshire.
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Member American Society for the Study of Religion, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Scis, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (correspondent), British Academy, Deutch Archeological Institute.
Married Rigmor Schroll, September 16, 1927 (deceased 1947). Married Joanne Poole, 1949 (deceased 1964). Married Katryna Hadley Parmenter, June 21, 1966.
Children: Dana Perrone, Pamela Pastacaldi, Caroline Apfel, Katryna Lockwood.