Klaas Veenhof

Klaas R. Veenhof (* 1935) is a Dutch orientalist

First, a professor at the University of Amsterdam, he worked from 1982 until his retirement Professor at Leiden University.

He has dealt particularly with the first half of the second millennium BC, particularly with the Assyrian texts from the dealer karum Kane, but also wrote well-known introductory books.

Publications (selection)

  • Aspects of old Assyrian trade and its terminology ( = Studia et Documenta ad Iura Orientis Antiqui Pertinentia. Vol. 10, ZDB - ID 445835-7 ). Brill, Leiden 1972.
  • Kanesj en de Assyrian handelskoloniën in small Azië. Nederlands Instituut voor het Oosten Nabije, Leiden 1986, ISBN 90-6258-241-9.
  • Evelyn Klengel -Brandt: Altassyrische clay tablets from Kultepe. Texts and seal impressions ( = Near Eastern written monuments of the National Museums in Berlin. H. NF = 10 H. 26). Man, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7861-1668-7.
  • History of the Ancient Near East until the time of Alexander the Great ( = The Old Testament German. Supplementary Series Vol 11). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-51685-1.
  • The old Assyrian list of year eponyms from Karum Kanish and its chronological implications ( = Publications of the Turkish Historical Society. Ser. 6, Vol 64). Turkish Historical Society, Ankara, 2003. ISBN 975-16-1546-1.
  • The archive of Kuliya, son of Ali - abum ( Kt.92 / k 188-263 ) (= Atatürk Kültür Dil ve Tarih Kurumu Yüksek. Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri. Vol. 5 = Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları. Dizi 6, 33c ). Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, Ankara 2010, ISBN 978-975-160246-6.
  • Ancient Assyria: The City, its Traders, and its commercial network. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Vol 53, 2010, ISSN 0449-3222, pp. 39-82.
  • Orientalist
  • University teachers (University of Amsterdam)
  • University teachers (University of Leiden)
  • Netherlander
  • Born in 1935
  • Man
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