Hildegard Lewy

Hildegard Lewy (née Schlesinger; 17 November 1903 – 8 October 1969) was a austro hungarian later American Assyriologist and academic. Having originally trained as a physicist(she graduated from University of Giessen with a phd in physics in 1926), upon her marriage to Julius Lewy and move to the United Statesshe moved into Assyriology; she specialised in cuneiform texts and Babylonian mathematics. She translated, commented on, and published a number of texts from Nuzi and Mari. She also contributed two chapters to The Cambridge Ancient History. She was a professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Born in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Lewy was the daughter of Ludwig Schlesinger, a mathematician. She studied at the University of Giessen, and completed a doctorate in physics in 1926.