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Frans de Liagre Böhl

1882 – 1976

Professor of Assyriology and Hebrew

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Lived 1882 – 1976 (aged 94). Frans de Liagre Böhl was a Dutch scientist, university teacher, assyriologist, orientalist and protestant theologian.

Eduard Böhl (1836–1903), Frans de Liagre Böhl's father and a Reformed theologian. Clay cuneiform tablet listing astrological Moon omens, as a part of the Sîn ina tāmartīšu commentary. A fragment from the library of king Assurbanipal (reigning from 669 BCE to 631) at Nineveh. Collection De Liagre Böhl, Leiden, 669-627 BC. Former residence of De Liagre Böhl at Groenhovenstraat 17 in Leiden, 2023. Franz "Frans" Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl (Vienna, Austria, 16 August 1882 – Milsbeek or Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 16 November 1976) was a Dutch professor of Assyriology and Hebrew.

His father was Eduard Böhl (1836–1903), a well-known Protestant clergyman and later a professor of Old Testament studies at the University of Vienna, who had married the daughter Anna of the influential Dutch Protestant theologian Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge (1803–1875). His second marriage was with Baroness Jacoba Frederica "Jacqueline" van Verschuer (1846–1921), who became Franz's mother.

In the years 1926-1928 he worked as an epigrapher in the archeological campaign of his father's Berlin colleague professor Ernst Sellin at Tell-el-Balâta (Tell Balata), the site of the biblical town of Sichem (Shechem) near Nablus in Palestine.

Honours In 1924 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received several international university honorary appointments: Die Sprache der Amarnabriefe : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kanaanismen, Leipzig : Hinrichs, 1909. In German. Kanaanäer und Hebräer : Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte des Volkstums und der Religion Israels auf dem Boden Kanaans, Leipzig : Hinrichs, 1911. In German. Die Juden im Urteil der griechischen und römischen Schriftsteller, Theologisch Tijdschrift. Bd. XLVIII(1914), 371–389, 473–484. In German. Ausgewählte Keilschrifttexte aus Boghaz-Köi, Leiden : S.C. van Doesburgh, 1916. In German. Het Oude Testament. Bijbelsch-kerkelijk woordenboek, Groningen [etc.] : Wolters, 1919. In Dutch. De opgraving van Sichem : bericht over de voorjaarscampagne en de zomercampagne in 1926, Zeist : Ruys, 1927. In Dutch. Nieuwjaarsfeest en Koningsdag in Babylon en Israël, inaugural lecture Leiden University, 1927. In Dutch. Das Zeitalter Abrahams, Leipzig : Hinrichs, 1930. In German. Palestina in het licht der jongste opgravingen en onderzoekingen, H.J. Paris, Amsterdam, 1931. In Dutch. Die fünfzig Namen des Marduk, 1936, Archiv für Orientforschung, 11, 1936, 191. . Also published as a book: Berlin: Weidner, 1936. In German. Der babylonische Fürstenspiegel, Leipzig : Harrassowitz ; 1937. In German. Het Gilgamesj epos : nationaal heldendicht van Babylonië / vertaald [uit het Akkadisch] en toegelicht door F.M.Th. De Liagre Böhl, 1941. In Dutch. Babylonische-Assyrische letterkunde, Utrecht : W. de Haan . In Dutch. De zonnegod als beschermer der nooddruftigen, Leiden, Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux (JEOL), Nr. 8, 1942. In Dutch. Het tijdvak der Sargonieden volgens brieven uit het koninklijk archief te Ninevé, Amsterdam : Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, ISSN 0168-6968 ; n.r., dl. 12, no. 8 (1949) 443–493. In Dutch. King Ḫammurabi of Babylon in the setting of his time (about 1700 b.C.), Amsterdam : Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, Reeks: Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, ISSN 0168-6968 ; n.r., dl. 9, no. 10 (1946), P. 341–370. In English. with Madelon L. Verstijnen, Akkadian chrestomathy. Vol. 1: Selected cuneiform texts, Leyden : Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1947. with Berend Gemser, De Psalmen I: [Psalm 1-41] / door F.M.Th. Böhl. - 1946. II: [Psalm 42-89] / door F.M.Th. Böhl. - 1947. III: [Psalm 90-150] / door B. Gemser. - 1949, 1946–1949, Groningen [etc.] : Wolters, 3 vols. Reeks: Tekst en uitleg : praktische bijbelverklaring. I: Het Oude Testament. Psalm translations in Dutch. (Abbreviation: "T. en U.", for the series Tekst en uitleg.) Missions- und Erwählungsgedanke in Alt-Israel, Tübingen, 1950. In German. Babel und Bibel, Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, no. 16 (1959–1962), Leiden, 1964. In German. De psalmen : tekst en uitleg, Nijkerk: Callenbach, 1968. In Dutch. Genesis. Tekst en uitleg : praktische bijbelverklaring. I: Het Oude Testament. In Dutch. with Hospers, J.H., Gilgamesj : de elfde zang : de zondvloed en het levenskruid, Utrecht: De Roos, 1985. In Dutch. with Kampman, Arie A. and Beek, M.A., Symbolae biblicae et Mesopotamicae : Francisco Mario Theodoro de Liagre Böhl dedicatae, Brill, 1973. In Dutch. Festschrift with a bibliography listing 321 publications by De Liagre Böhl.

Works by others Liagre Böhl, Herman de, Bijbel en Babel : Frans de Liagre Böhl, 1882-1976, Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2021. Biography by his son. . In Dutch.

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Rector magnificus of the University of Groningen
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Leiden University, University of Groningen
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Franz Marius Theodor Böhl, F.M.T. Böhl, Franz Böhl, Frans Böhl, F.M.T. de Liagre Böhl, Franz Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl

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Professor of Assyriology and Hebrew (1882–1976)

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Frans de Liagre Böhl was born on 16 August 1882 in Vienna.

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Frans de Liagre Böhl died on 16 November 1976 in Nijmegen, Milsbeek.

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Frans de Liagre Böhl was a scientist, university teacher, assyriologist, orientalist and protestant theologian.

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Frans de Liagre Böhl was Dutch.

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