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Arno Poebel (1881–1958) was a German Assyriologist. He studied theology and classical philology inHeidelberg, Marburg, Zürich and Jena. In 1905/6, he worked with Sumerian documents at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, submitting an edition of Sumerian legal documents as his dissertation in 1906.
He taught at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore during 1911 to 1913, editing further Sumerian texts at thePennsylvania Museum during 1912 to 1914. He was at the University of Rostock during 1919 to 1928. His Sumerian grammar (1923) was seminal to the field of Sumerology and remains relevant (English translation in 2005).
Peobel emigrated to the United States in 1928, becoming professor of Assyriology and Sumerology at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute in 1930. He was editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary from 1933 until his retirement in 1946.