Albert T. Olmstead

Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (March 23, 1880 – April 11, 1945) was an American historian and academic, who specialized in Assyriology.^[1]

Olmstead was born in 1880 in New York, and died in 1945 in Chicago.^[2]

He was Professor of Oriental History at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.^[2] Among his doctoral students was Neilson C. Debevoise, later an influential historian of the Parthian Empire.^[3]

Works

• Olmstead, Albert T. (1908). Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria (PhD). Cornell University. hdl:2027/wu.89095897237.
• ——— (1916). Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study. The University of Missouri Studies: Social Science Series. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri.
• ——— (1918). The New Arab Kingdom and the Fate of the Muslim World . Urbana, Illinois: War Committee of the University of Illinois – via Wikisource.
• ——— (1923). History of Assyria. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• ——— (1931). History of Palestine and Syria to the Macedonian Conquest. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• ——— (1942). Jesus in the Light of History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• ——— (1948). History of the Persian Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Articles

• Olmstead, Albert T. (October 1913). "Source study and the Biblical text". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 30 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1086/369728. S2CID 170786111.
• ——— (July 1918). "Oriental imperialism". The American Historical Review. 23 (4): 755–762. doi:10.2307/1836330. JSTOR 1836330.
• ——— (January 1920). "Kashshites, Assyrians, and the balance of power". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 36 (2): 120–153. doi:10.1086/369899. hdl:2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t4cp4gj15. S2CID 170645279.
• ——— (April 1938). "Babylonian Astronomy : Historical Sketch". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 55 (2): 113–129. doi:10.1086/amerjsemilanglit.55.2.3088090. S2CID 170628425.