Hermann Hunger

Hermann Hunger ( * June 30, 1942 in Bautzen ) is an Austrian orientalist ( Assyriologist ) and astronomy historian.

Hermann Hunger, son of Herbert Byzantinists hunger studied, according to the matriculation examination in 1960 Vienna Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna. 1963/64, he studied Assyriology and Arabic at the University of Heidelberg from 1964 to 1966 at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1966 at Wolfram von Soden in Assyriology and Semitic Philology ( Babylonian and Assyrian colophons ). 1967 to 1970 he was a speaker at the German Archaeological Institute in Baghdad. 1970-1973 he was a Research Associate at the University of Chicago and then to 1976 at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna, where he habilitated. 1976 to 1978 he was Associate Professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and from 1978 he was an associate professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, where he retired in 2007.

He is regarded as one of the leading authorities on Babylonian astronomy history, where he later worked with Otto Neugebauer early and Abraham Sachs with David Pingree. He was significantly involved in the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.

Hunger is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the Commission for the History of Science, mathematics and medicine, and the Mycenaean Commission he is. In 2010 he was made an honorary member of the American Oriental Society. Hunger is co-editor of the Archives of Oriental Research.

Writings (selection )

  • Neo-Babylonian texts from Uruk, Berlin, Man, Berlin 1976
  • With F. Richard Stephenson, CBF Walker: Halley 's Comet in History. British Museum, London 1985
  • With David Pingree: MUL.APIN. An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform. Archive for Oriental Research, Supplement 24, 1989 Horn
  • Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. Helsinki University Press, Helsinki 1992
  • With Abraham Sachs ( eds.): Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, Vol 1-3, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1996 to 2006.
  • With David Pingree: Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia. Handbook of Oriental Studies Vol 44, Brill 1999
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