Wolfram von Soden
German Assyriologist (1908–1996)
Wolfram Theodor Hermann Freiherr von Soden (19 June 1908 in Berlin – 6 October 1996 in Muenster) was a German Assyriologist of the post–World War II era.
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edit- Since the discovery of the Indus civilization … it has been almost universally accepted that the Sumerians immigrated from the east.... this immigration could have succeeded entirely by land if the Sumerians immigrated from somewhere in northern India... the westward migration of the Sumerian groups, whose language may have been related to the Dravidian languages of India.
- quoted in Thomas C. Mcevilley - The Shape of Ancient Thought_ Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies (2001, Allworth Press) chapter 10 .
- Wolfram von Soden, The Ancient Orient: An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East, trans. Donald G. Schley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William R. Eerdmans, 1994), p. 17.
