William W. Hallo

William W. Hallo ( born March 9, 1928 in Kassel ) is an orientalist. Hello 1939 he immigrated to the United States; He is currently Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University.

Life

Hello William was born in 1928 as the second child of the art historian Rudolf Hello and Hi economist Gertrud, born Rubensohn in Kassel. His father, first successor of Franz Rosenzweig in the leadership of the Free Jewish yeshiva in Frankfurt am Main, and since the mid- 1920s, curator of the Hessian State Museum in Kassel, died in 1933, so it became increasingly difficult for the mother in the National Socialist German Reich, to and the two children get through. In 1939, she succeeded in time to emigrate to England and get 1940 visas to the United States.

William Hello studied after finishing school languages ​​and literature of the Middle Eastern languages ​​at Harvard, Chicago and Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1955 he received his doctorate with the work of Early Mesoptamian Royal Titles at the University of Chicago. Since 1962 he taught until his retirement in 2002 Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University and was a curator at the local Babylonian Collection.

Work

William W. Hallo is one of the most internationally renowned representatives of the Ancient Near Eastern Studies. He succeeded in deciphering some important text finds from the earliest period of human written culture. Through his research on the languages ​​and cultures of Mesopotamia, he had contributed to a cultural and historical overall interpretation of human history. Another pioneer work of William W. Hallo is the translation of Franz Rosenzweig's major work, The Star of Redemption into English (1971 ), which was also his mother Gertrude Hi had an important share.

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate from Union College in Hebrey Cinciannati
  • Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor in 1991 at the University of Kassel

Writings (selection )

  • The Ensi 's of the Ur III Dynasty. University of Chicago Microfilm, 1953.
  • Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles: a Philo Logic and Historical Analysis. New Haven in 1957.
  • Sumerian Archival Texts. Leiden 1963.
  • The Exaltation of Inanna. ( with J.J.A. van Dijk ), New Haven / London 1968.
  • The Star of Redemption, by Franz Rosenzweig. Translated from the Second Edition of 1930 by William W. Hallo, New York 1971.
  • The Ancient Near East: A History. ( with William Kelly Simpson), New York 1971.
  • Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, a source reader. ( with David B. Ruderman and Michael Stanislawski ), New York 1984.
  • The Tablets of Ebla: Concordance and Bibliography. ( with Scott G. Beld and Piotr Michalowski ), Winona Lake IN 1984.
  • The Book of the People. Brown Judaic Studies. Atlanta 1991.
  • Origins. The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions. Leiden / New York / Cologne 1996.
  • Search for Origins ( an autobiographical sketch). In: Wolf Dietrich - Smith Kowarzik (ed.): re-presentations of the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel from 1987 to 1998. Kassel 1997.
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