Edward Lipiński (orientalist)

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Edward Lipiński, also known as Edouard Lipiński, was a Polish-Belgian biblical scholar and orientalist (1930–2024). He was born in Łódź, Poland, and died in Brussels, Belgium. He taught at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, becoming a professor in 1969. He taught the comparative grammar of Semitic languages, the history of ancient Near Eastern religions and institutions, and headed Leuven’s Department of Oriental and Slavonic Studies from 1978 to 1984. He oversaw the Dictionnaire de la civilisation phénicienne et punique (1992) and began the Studia Phoenicia series (from 1983). Lipiński published Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar (1997, 2001) and wrote extensively on Old Aramaic dialects and history, including Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics (1975, 1994, 2010, 2016) and The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (2000). A reviewer called The Aramaeans one of the greatest Semitic scholars of our time. He received an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 2003. Although he retired in 1995, he continued researching, especially in Aramaic and Phoenician studies. WorldCat lists over 100 of his publications, and The Enigma Press published a complete bibliography.