Profile

Professional career

• since 01/2022
  Academic assistant at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Leipzig University
• 07/2017 - 12/2021
  Research fellow in the DFG-funded project "Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries" in the frame-work of the "Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian" project at Leipzig University.
• 09/2012 - 06/2017
  Research assistant at the Altorientalisches Insitut Leipzig.• Research and education (Akkadian language)• Public relations• Student advisor• Planning of study programs
• 10/2011 - 08/2012
  Student assistant at the Altorientalisches Institut Leipzig.
• 10/2008 - 09/2011
  Student assistant (library assistant) at the Altorientalisches Institut Leipzig.

Education

• 01/2013 - 05/2021
  Doctorate on "Early Old Babylonian Grammar" under supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael P. Streck
• 10/2010 - 09/2012
  MA in Assyriology (Leipzig and Leiden, The Netherlands).
• 10/2007 - 09/2010
  BA in Egyptology (Leipzig).

Panel Memberships

• 12/2013 - 10/2017
  Member of the study commission Ancient Studies

• Akkadian Grammar
• Akkadian Lexicography
• the Old Babylonian Period

• Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries

  Streck, Michael Peter

  Duration: 07/2013 – ongoing

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Altorientalistik
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• Wende, J.

  Akkadian Emotion Terms

  In: Sonik, K.; Steinert, U. (Eds.)

  The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East. London: Taylor & Francis. 2022. p. Chapter 5.

  ISBN: 9780367407513
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• Wende, J.

  Zabāja

  In: Streck, M. P. (Ed.)

  Berlin/München/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 2018. p. 170.
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• Wende, J.

  Ur-Ningišzida

  Berlin/München/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 2015. p. 435.
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• Wende, J.

  Frühaltbabylonische Grammatik

  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2022.

  ISBN: 978-3-447-11806-4
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• Streck, M. P.; Wende, J.

  Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries Vol. 3: G, K, Q. With the collaboration of Bert Kouwenberg, Nadezda Rudik, Jonas Klöker and Frank Simons

  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2022.

  ISBN: 978-3-447-11027-3
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more publications

Akkadian Language in general with special focus on the third and second millennia BCE.

• From cuneiform to podcast

  Das Seminar befasst sich mit der Aufbereitung keilschriftlicher Primärquellen sowie wissenschaftlicher Fachliteratur zu ausgewählten Themenbereichen für ein nicht-wissenschaftliches Publikum. Ziel ist die Konzeption, Planung, und Umsetzung eines mehrteiligen Podcast.

• Akkadian reading course: The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Das Seminar befasst sich mit der Lektüre der 11. Tafel des Gilgameš-Epos sowie der kultur- und literaturgeschichtlichen Stellung der Sintfluterzählung in der Überlieferung Mesopotamiens. Der Kurs richtet sich insbesondere an Anfänger:innen.

• The earliest Akkadian texts from Ereš and Ebla

  The seminar focuses on the earliest Akkadian texts dating to the Early Dynastic Period. The first text is the oldest Akkadian text known to us, the Hymn to Šamaš from Šuruppag and Ebla: ARET (Archivi Reali di Ebla Testi) 5, 6 and IAS (= OIP 99), 326(+ 342).

• Texts from the Old Assyrian Period

  Introduction to Old Assyrian and reading course on texts from this corpus (summer term 2022)

• Old Akkadian Royal Inscriptions

  Introduction to Old Akkadian and reading course on Old Akkadian royal inscriptions (advanced level, winter term 2021/22)

• Old Babylonian Texts from Tell Leilan (Šubat-Enlil)

  Reading course on the Old Babylonian letters and treaties from Tell Leilan in the Habur triangle area (summer term 2021).

• Introduction to the Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) language and literature, and cuneiform II

  • Deepening of grammatical knowledge.
  • Reading of selected original text using hand-copies (parts of the Code of Hammurapi and Old Babylonian letters).
  • Deepening of the understanding of cultural and historical contexts of the textual record.

• Introduction to the Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) language and literature, as well as cuneiform I

  • Introduction to Akkadian grammar, specifically Old Babylonian.
  • Overview of genres of the cuneiform textual record.
  • A basic repertoire of cuneiform signs in the Old Babylonian ductus.