Giovanni Pettinato

Giovanni Pettinato ( born September 27, 1934 in Troina; † 19 May 2011 ) was an Italian orientalist.

Giovanni Pettinato studied since 1953 Theology at the University of Naples Federico II in 1957 he moved to the University La Sapienza in Rome, where he studied Biblical Studies. In 1961 he completed his studies with the Licenza in Sacra Teologia and the Licenza in Scienze Bibliche and started in the same year a study of Assyriology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. There he was in 1966 his doctorate with a thesis on Studies on neusumerischen Agriculture, two years later, the habilitation was ibid. about texts for the management of agriculture in the Ur III period. That same year, he also earned the Liberation Docenza ( teaching license, Habilitation, venia about Legendi ) for the subject Assiriologia at the University of Rome. At the same time he was 1968-1970 University lecturer in Heidelberg. 1970 Pettinato was appointed to the chair of Assyriology and Oriental History at the University of Turin. Four years later he was appointed as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Rome. In 1994 he was appointed honorary professor at Heidelberg.

From 1970 to 1992 Pettinato was co-director of the Commission for Sumerian and Assyrian Dictionary of the Unione Nazionale Accademica and by this Commission since 1992 as a director before. In 1991, he became the European leaders for the dictionary projects that are funded by the academies in the world, appointed. During the excavations of the Archaeological Missione Italiana in Iraq, the University of Turin, he was 1972/73 as excavation philologist ( Epigraphist ) worked from 1974 to 1979 by the Archaeological Missione Italiana in Siria Tell a Mardikh / Ebla the University of Rome. Between 1976 and 1995 he edited the journal Oriens Antiquus and Orientis Antiqui Collectio Series for the Istituto per l' Oriente University of Rome. Pettinato has received many awards and honored for his work. 1983 awarded him the city of Florence to Columbus Award, a year later the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the price of philology and linguistics. In addition, in 1984 the Humboldt Research Prize awarded him. The Cornell University appointed the specialist for eblaitische language in 1985 as Senior Fellow. The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei called Pettinato 1989 a corresponding member. He has published as sole or co-authored more than 30 monographs and more than 100 essays, articles and reviews.

Writings

• Texts for the management of agriculture in the Ur III period. The round tables, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Rome 1969 ( orientalia Analecta, Volume 45 )
• The ancient oriental man and the Sumerian and Akkadian creation myths, C. Winter, Heidelberg 1971 ISBN 3-533-02126-2 ( Proceedings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences of Humanities class, born in 1971, Treatise 1)
• Semiramis. Mistress of Assyria and Babylon. Biography, Artemis, Zurich -Munich 1988 ISBN 3-7608-0748-8