Leonie Zuntz

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Leonie Zuntz (1908–1942) was a German Hittitologist who settled in Britain in 1934 as refugee scholar at Somerville College, Oxford. She was included in Black Book, the list of British residents to be arrested after a Nazi invasion of Great Britain in 1940.[1]

Life[]

Leonie Zuntz was from a family of Jewish descent, although her grandfather Nathan Zuntz (1847–1920) had converted to Christianity. In the 1920s she was romantically involved with Elias Joseph Bickerman.[2] In the late 1920s, while studying at Munich, she befriended the orientalist . After gaining her doctorate, she emigrated to England in 1934. Settling in Oxford, she taught German at Somerville College and worked for Oxford University Press.[3] In 1934-5 she introduced Oliver Gurney to Hittite.[4] She committed suicide in London in 1942.[3]

Works[]

  • Die hethitischen Ortsadverbien arha, parā, piran als selbständige Adverbien und in ihrer Verbindung mit Nomina und Verba, Speyer a. Rh. : Pilger-Druckerei, 1936

References[]

  1. ^ "Hitler's Black Book - information for Doctor Leonie Zuntz". forces-war-records.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  2. ^ Albert I. Baumgarten (2010). Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews: A Twentieth Century Tale. Mohr Siebeck. p. 20. ISBN 978-3-16-150171-5.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Jan Schmidt (2014). Dreizehn Jahre Istanbul (1937-1949) (2 vols): Der deutsche Assyriologe Fritz Rudolf Kraus und sein Briefwechsel im türkischen Exil. BRILL. p. 8. ISBN 978-90-04-26307-9.
  4. ^ Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 120, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, II. OUP/British Academy. 2003. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-19-726302-0.
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