Assyriology and Sumerian religious studies

Stephen Langdon

1876 – 1937

Stephen Herbert Langdon was an American-born British Assyriologist who served as Oxford's Professor of Assyriology from 1919. He produced landmark studies on Sumerian and Babylonian religion, including Tammuz and Ishtar (1914) and a volume on Semitic mythology for the Mythology of All Races series, establishing Mesopotamian religious concepts as foundational to broader ancient Near Eastern traditions.