Stephen Langdon

Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876–1937) was an American-born Assyriologist who spent his career at Oxford, where he was Shillito Reader and then Professor of Assyriology from 1919 and became a British subject. Born in Michigan and educated at Columbia and in Paris and Leipzig, he published grammars and editions of Sumerian and Babylonian texts, including liturgies, hymns, the Sumerian epic of paradise, and the Old Babylonian tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh acquired by the University Museum in Philadelphia, which he edited in 1917. He directed the excavations at Kish in Iraq in the 1920s.