| 1 | Name: | Dr. Åke W. Sjöberg | |
| Institution: | The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Year Elected: | 1980 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1924 | ||
| Death Date: | August 8, 2014 | ||
Of great eminence in the highly specialized field of Sumerian literature and history, Ake W. Sjöberg became the Clark Research Professor of Assyriology Emeritus and Curator-in-Charge Emeritus at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, in 1996. He had been affiliated with the university since 1966 as a professor and as curator of its Tablets Collections. As the founder of the Pennsylvanian Sumerian Dictionary Project, he continued the tradition of painstaking scholarship established by his predecessor, Dr. Samuel Kramer, as he and others worked to unlock the secrets of an ancient language and civilization that flourished five millennia ago. A native of Sweden, Dr. Sjoberg held a Fil.Dr. degree (1960) and T,eol. Dr. W.C. (1984) from the University of Uppsala. He served as a docent there (1960-63) as well as as a lecturer, assistant and associate professor at the Oriental Institute of Chicago (1963-66) prior to arriving at Penn. He returned to Sweden after his retirement and died August 8, 2014, at age 90, in Uppsala, Sweden. | |||