Heinrich Zimmern

To be distinguished from Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943) German Indologist, and Heinrich Zimmer (Celticist) (1851–1910)

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Heinrich Zimmern (14 July 1862, in Graben – 17 February 1931, in Leipzig) was a German Assyriologist. He was the first professor of Assyriology at Leipzig University,^[1] and considered the founder of the discipline of the history of the ancient Near Eastern religions in Germany.^[2]