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the Cuneiform Collections of the British Museum)."
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<h4>V.8. Jussi Aro (5 June 1928 – 11 March 1983)</h4>
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alt="Ex Libris of books from the collection of Jussi Aro"
alt="Jussi Aro in the year of his Disputatio (1955). Photo courtesy of S. Aro-Valjus."
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Ex Libris of books from the collection of Jussi Aro
Jussi Aro in the year of his Disputatio (1955).
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text="The Finnish Assyriologist and Semitist Jussi Aro was a prolific
author, translator, and commentator, renowned for his extensive knowledge of the
ancient and modern Near East. He held the chair of Oriental Literature at the University
of Helsinki from 1965 until his untimely death in 1983. Aro was a polyglot whose passion
for languages began in early childhood, leading him to study theology, Greek literature,
Semitic languages, and Assyriology at the University of Helsinki, with additional studies
in Chicago and Göttingen. His dissertation on Middle Babylonian grammar
(@bib{aro1955studien}) was the fourth Assyriological dissertation written in
ancient and modern Near East. He held the chair of Oriental Literature (later Semitic
Languages) at the University of Helsinki from 1965 until his untimely death in 1983.
Aro was a polyglot whose passion for languages began in early childhood, leading him to
study theology, Greek literature, Semitic languages, and Assyriology at the University
of Helsinki, with additional studies in Chicago (where he also worked for the
@i{Chicago Assyrian Dictionary}) and Göttingen. His dissertation on Middle Babylonian
grammar (@bib{aro1955studien}) was the fourth Assyriological dissertation written in
Finland (after Knut Tallqvist, Harri Holma, and Armas Salonen, Aro’s teacher in
Assyriology). After his appointment as professor of Oriental Literature in 1965, Aro
concentrated on Arabic and other Semitic languages. However, the numerous reviews of
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