Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (March 23, 1880 – April 11, 1945) was an American historian and academic, who specialized in
Assyriology
Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , '' -logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...
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Olmstead was born in 1880 in New York, and died in 1945 in Chicago.
He was Professor of Oriental History at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Among his doctoral students was
Neilson C. Debevoise, later an influential historian of the
Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire (), also known as the Arsacid Empire (), was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conque ...
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1880 births
1945 deaths
American Assyriologists
20th-century American historians
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