Profile

Professional career

• since 08/2003
  Holder of the Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Leipzig and Director of the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
• 10/2002
  teaching assignment at the Eötvös-university Budapest.
• 10/2001 - 02/2002
  teaching assignment at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Near East at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
• 10/2000 - 03/2001
  Representation of the Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg.
• 10/1998 - 09/1999
  teaching assignment at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Bern.
• 04/1998
  teaching assignment at the IInstitute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Karls-Universität, Prag.
• 10/1994
  Participation in the excavation of the German Oriental Society in Tuttul/Tall Bi'a, Syria.
• 01/1993 - 12/1996
  Part-time proofreading for Time-Life International GmbH (supervision of the German translation of four books on classical studies).
• 01/1993 - 12/1999
  Research assistant at the Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology at the LMU.
• 01/1991 - 12/1993
  Research assistant at the Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.

Education

• 01/1998 - 12/1998
  Habilitation and private lectureship in Assyriology at the LMU (Habilitation thesis: Das amurritische Onomastikon der altbabylonischen Zeit).
• 01/1992 - 12/1992
  Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the LMU (supervisor: D. O. Edzard. Dissertation: Number and time. Grammar of numeralia and the verbal system in Late Babylonian).
• 01/1989 - 12/1989
  Magister Artium at the LMU (Master's thesis: Functional analysis and statistical studies of Akkadian verbal stems with T(A)-Infix on the basis of Soden's AHw (Akkadian Dictionary)).
• 10/1986 - 12/1992
  Studied Assyriology, Semitic Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.
• 01/1984 - 10/1986
  Studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Semitic Studies, Religious Studies, Biblical and Christian Archaeology at the Philipps University of Marburg.
• 08/1983 - 07/1984
  Abitur at the Kopernikus-Gymnasium Wissen, a secondary school for modern languages and natural sciences.

Panel Memberships

• since 01/2022
  Member in Editorial Board von Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Languages
• since 01/2020
  Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
• since 01/2021
  PROMOS assessor at the University of Leipzig
• 01/2019 - 12/2020
  Member of the Appointments Committee for Egyptology Leipzig.
• 01/2019 - 12/2020
  Member of the Appeals Committee for Classical Archaeology Leipzig.
• since 01/2019
  Member of the Graduate Commission of the University of Leipzig.
• 01/2017 - 12/2018
  Member of the Appointments Committee for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Jena.
• 01/2020 - 12/2020
  Member of the Appointments Committee for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Jena.
• 01/2017 - 12/2017
  Member of the Appointments Committee for Arabic Linguistics, Leipzig.
• 01/2016 - 12/2016
  Member of the Appointments Committee for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Marburg.
• since 01/2016
  Mitglied des Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times.
• 01/2014 - 12/2017
  Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies Marburg.
• 01/2013 - 12/2016
  Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies at Leipzig University.
• 01/2019 - 12/2022
  Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies at Leipzig University.
• since 10/2010
  Deputy Chairman of the Doctoral Commission, responsible for "Regional Studies" in the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies at Leipzig University.
• 01/2007 - 12/2012
  Member of the board of the SFB "Difference and Integration. Interactions between nomadic and sedentary life forms in civilizations of the ancient world".
• since 11/2005
  Chairman of the commission for the entrance examination for the acquisition of the subject-specific university entrance qualification of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies at the University of Leipzig.
• 07/1997 - 06/1998
  Representative of the mid-level faculty on the Faculty Council of Faculty 12 at LMU.
• since 01/2022
  Member of the project advisory board "Cuneiform Artefacts of Iraq in Context (CAIC)" of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• since 01/2019
  Member of the structural commission Africa - Asia - Europe of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
• since 01/2017
  Deputy speaker of the Semitic Studies section of the German Oriental Society.
• since 01/2016
  Chairman of the project committee "Cuneiform Research and Near Eastern Archaeology" at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• 01/2012 - 12/2014
  Second Chairman of the German Oriental Society.
• 01/2009 - 12/2017
  Speaker of the Semitic Studies working group (from 2015 section) in the German Oriental Society.
• 01/2008 - 12/2011
  Member of the Board of the German Oriental Society.
• 01/2005 - 12/2015
  Member of the Commission for Cuneiform Research and Near Eastern Archaeology of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• since 01/1998
  Foundation of the Semitic Studies Working Group in the German Oriental Society (together with J. Oelsner and S. Weninger).
• 01/2014 - 12/2023
  Member of the Advisory Board of Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes
• since 01/2012
  Member of the Advisory Board of World of the Orient
• 01/2008 - 12/2019
  Member of the Advisory Board of Ancient Orient and Old Testament
• since 01/2012
  Member of the Advisory Board of World of the Orient
• 01/2008 - 12/2019
  Member of the Editoral Board von Languages of the Ancient Near East

His research focuses on the grammar, lexicon, onomastics and literature of the Semitic languages of the Ancient Near East, especially Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian), the most important language of the Ancient Near East, and the early Northwest Semitic languages (especially Amurritic, but also early Aramaic). Other of his works deal with nomadism in the Ancient Near East, the relationship between man and nature in Mesopotamia and the history of Ancient Near Eastern studies.

• 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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• Streck, M. P. (Ed.)

  2.5. Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Fachgebiet Altorientalistik seit Bd. 157 (2007).

  2022.
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• Streck, M. P.

  Akkadian eppepi'atu "eyelashes", Northwest Semitic 'ap'ap "eyelid" and some other Parts of the Eye in Akkadian, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (im Druck).

  2022.
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• Streck, M. P.

  Old Babylonian Grammar. Part I: Orthography and Phonology, Pronouns, Nouns, Numerals. Brill (in press).

  2022.

  ISBN: 978-90-04-49898-3
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• Streck, M. P.

  Die Altorientalistik und der Harrassowitz Verlag, in: B. Krauß (ed.), 150 Jahre Harrassowitz Verlag. Katalog der lieferbaren Titel 2022. Mit Beiträgen zur Verlagsgeschichte und zum Programm (2022) 186.

  2022.
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more publications

• Akademiemitgliedschaften: Ordentliches Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

  Streck, Michael Peter (Altorientalisches Institut)

  awarded in 2020 by Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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• Geschichte und Religion Israels und seiner Umwelt

  Minerva Zentrum RIAB

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/07/2015

  Involved persons: Berlejung, Angelika; Frenschkowski, Marco; Streck, Michael Peter; Hagemeyer, Felix
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• Altorientalisches Institut

  Sources of Early Akkadian Literature

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/01/2008

  Involved persons: Streck, Michael Peter; Wasserman, Nathan
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• Gastvortrag

  "Seine Sprache war fremd, niemand verstand seine Rede". Indirekte Sprachzeugnisse im Alten Orient.

  Altorientalistik

  Event Organiser: Streck, Michael Peter

  25/10/2023
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• Vortrag auf der Rencontre Assyriologique

  New Light on Papulegara. A Duplicate of the Papulegara Hymns (zusammen mit Nathan Wasserman)

  Altorientalistik

  Event Organiser: Streck, Michael Peter

  19/07/2023
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• Tagung

  Vernetzte Sprachen und Religionen an der Seidenstraße

  Altorientalistik

  Event Organiser: zu Leipzig, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaft; Streck, Michael Peter

  28/06/2023
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• Tagung

  34. Deutscher Orientalistentag: "Dieser Mann ist ein Arsch!" Schimpfwörter bei den Babyloniern und Assyrern.

  Altorientalistik

  Event Organiser: Streck, Michael Peter

  13/09/2022
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• Tagung

  11. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft: Der Altorientalische Mensch in seiner Umwelt

  Altorientalistik

  Event Organiser: Streck, Michael Peter

  16/06/2022 – 19/06/2022
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Prof. Michael P. Streck teaches Ancient Near Eastern Studies. His courses include language courses in the ancient Near Eastern languages Babylonian-Assyrian (Akkadian), Sumerian and Ugaritic, reading seminars on historical and cultural-historical topics of the ancient Near East (e.g. literature, religion, law), lectures (Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies, History of the Ancient Near East, Environmental and Natural History, History of Literature) and an annual research colloquium with BA and MA graduates and doctoral students.

• Lecture: Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics and Alphabets: Writings and Languages of the Ancient Orient (2 hours)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2019

• Seminar for the lecture "Cuneiform, hieroglyphics, alphabets"

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2019

• Lecture: Euphrates, sheep and date palm. Regional studies of Mesopotamia (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2024
  • SoSe 2020
  • WiSe 2013/2014
  • WiSe 2003/2004

  
  

• Lecture: The Ancient Orient: An introduction to history, cultures, languages, sources and methods

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2023/2024
  • WiSe 2022/2023

  
  

• Lecture: History of Babylonian-Assyrian Literature

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2023

• Lecture: Wedges and Kings: A History of Babylonia and Assyria Told from Outstanding Cuneiform Texts in Akkadian (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2022
  • SoSe 2007

• Accompanying reading for the lecture "Wedges and Kings"

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2007

• Lecture: Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Studies (2 hours)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2021/2022
  • WiSe 2017/2018

• Lecture: On Gilgamesh, the Flood and the Creation of the World: A Literary History of Babylonia and Assyria (2 hours)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2018

• Lecture: Archaeology, History and Culture of the Ancient Near East I (2 hours)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2017

• Lecture: Cultural History of Ancient Mesopotamia (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2016

• Lecture: History of the Ancient Near East from the Neolithic Revolution to Islam (10000 BC to 622 AD) (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2015/2016

  
  

• Vorlesung: "Als die Götter Mensch waren": Die Literatur der Babylonier und Assyer (1 Stunde)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2014/2015

• Lecture: Voices from a distant land. A history of Babylonia and Assyria, told according to outstanding cuneiform texts (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2014

• Lecture: History of the Akkadian language (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2006/2007

• Lecture: Historical regional studies of Mesopotamia (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2005/2006

• Lecture: History and Culture of the Ancient Orient

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2011/2012 (together with C. Pappi)
  • SoSe 2011 (together with J. Hazenbos)
  • SoSe 2010 (together with J. Hazenbos)
  • WiSe 2008/2009 (together with C. Pappi)
  • SoSe 2008 (together with S. Minx) Part II
  • SoSe 2007 (together with J. Hazenbos)
  • WiSe 2005/2006 (together with J. Hazenbos) Part I
  • SoSe 2005 (together with PD Dr. A.Zgoll and PD Dr. J. Hazenbos) Part II
  • WiSe 2004/2005 (together with PD Dr. A.Zgoll and PD Dr. J. Hazenbos) Part I

  
  

• Lecture: Ancient Near Eastern civilizations from 3500 BC to the turn of the millennium (2 hours)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2020/2021
  • WiSe 2019/2020
  • WiSe 2018/2019

  
  

• Lecture: Babylonian tangle of languages: Writings and Languages of the Ancient Near East (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2015

• Lecture: The Amurrites - Nomads in Mesopotamia (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2004

• Introduction to Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) literature and language as well as cuneiform writing

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2024 (Part II)
  • WiSe 2023/2024 (Part I)
  • SoSe 2011 (Part II) ( togehter with A. Jordanova, 4 hours)
  • WiSe 2010/2011 (Part I) (together with A. Jordanova, 4 hours)
  • SoSe 2010 (Part II) (together with A. Jordanova, 4 hours)
  • WiSe 2009/2010 (Part I) (togehter with S. Minx, 4 hours)
  • WiSe 2006/2007 (4 hours, together with V. Golinets)
  • SoSe 2005 (Part II)
  • WiSe 2004/2005
  • SoSe 2004 (Part II)
  • WiSe 2003/2004
  • WiSe 2003/2004 (Part I)

  
  

• Masterclass Akkadian Lexicography: Lexical Texts (together with M. Ceccarelli)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2023

• Ancient Orientalist internship

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2024
  • WiSe 2023/2024
  • WiSe 2022/2023
  • SoSe 2022
  • WiSe 2021/2022
  • WiSe 2020/2021
  • SoSe 2020
  • WiSe 2019/2020
  • SoSe 2019
  • WiSe 2018/2019
  • SoSe 2018
  • WiSe 2017/2018
  • SoSe 2017
  • SoSe 2016
  • WiSe 2015/2016
  • SoSe 2015
  • WiSe 2014/2015
  • SoSe 2014
  • WiSe 2013/2014
  • SoSe 2011 (1 hour)
  • WiSe 2010/2011
  • SoSe 2007

  
  

• Ancient Near Eastern Research Colloquium - 2017-2024

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2024 (in Siegmundsburg, together with J. Hackl)
  • SoSe 2023 (in Siegmundsburg, together with J. Hackl)
  • SoSe 2022 (in Zingst, together with J. Hackl)
  • WiSe 2021/2022
  • SoSe 2019 (in Zingst, together with M. Krebernik)
  • SoSe 2018 (in Siegmundsburg, together with M. Krebernik)
  • SoSe 2017 (in Siegmundsburg, together with M. Krebernik)

  
  

  
  

• Ancient Near Eastern Research Colloquium - 2011-2016

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2016 (in Siegmundsburg, together with M. Krebernik)
  • WiSe 2015/2016
  • SoSe 2015 (together with M. Krebernik)
  • WiSe 2014/2015
  • SoSe 2014 (together with M. Krebernik)
  • WiSe 2013/2014 (1 Stunde)
  • SoSe 2013 (together with M. Krebernik)
  • WiSe 2011/2012 (1 Stunde)
  • SoSe 2011 (together with M. Krebernik, in Siegmundsburg)
  • WiSe 2010/2011

  
  

• Ancient Near Eastern Research Colloquium - 2006-2010

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2010 (together with M. Krebernik, in Zingst)
  • WiSe 2009/2010
  • SoSe 2009 (in Zingst)
  • WiSe 2008/2009
  • SoSe 2008 (in Zingst)
  • SoSe 2007 (together with M. Krebernik)
  • WiSe 2006/2007
  • SoSe 2006 (together with M. Krebernik)

  
  

• Ancient Near Eastern Research Colloquium - 2003-2005

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2005/2006 (together with other teachers of the institute)
  • SoSe 2005 (together with other teachers of the institute)
  • WiSe 2004/2005 (together with other teachers of the institute)
  • SoSe 2004 (together with other teachers of the institute)
  • WiSe 2003/2004 (together with other teachers of the institute)

  
  

• Introduction to Sumerian

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2016 Part II
  • WiSe 2015/2016
  • WiSe 2010/2011Introduction to Sumerian (4 hours)
  • SoSe 2006 Part III: Texts on the economy, history and law of Sumer
  • WiSe 2005/2006 Part II
  • SoSe 2005 Part I

  
  

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 1996/1997 Part III
  • SoSe 1996 Part II
  • WiSe 1995/1996 Part I
  • SoSe 1994 Part II
  • WiSe 1993/1994 Part I

  
  

• Introduction to Ugaritic

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2019/2020 Part I
  • WiSe 2013/2014 Part I
  • SoSe 2010: Ugaritic reading
  • WiSe 2006/2007
  • SoSe 2006 (1 hour)
  • WiSe 2004/2005: Ugaritic reading (1 hour)
  • WiSe 2003/2004

  
  

• Introduction to Neolithic and Late Babylonian

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2008/2009

• How to read an unpublished text (together with N. Wasserman)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2017/2018

• From cuneiform to podcast

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2024
  • WiSe 2023/2024

  
  

• Discussion of ancient orientalist works (1 hour)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2003/2004

• New Akkadian literary texts

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2020/2021

• Ancient Akkadian royal inscriptions and letters from the time of the Akkadian dynasty

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2013/2014
  • WiSe 2004/2005

  
  

• Akkadian legends about the ancient Akkadian kings Sargon and Naram-Sin

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2016

• Akkadisch: Gilgameschepos (Sintflutepisode u.a.).

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2017/2018
  • SoSe 2017
  • WiSe 2014/2015: The Flood Narrative in the Epic of Gilgamesh  
  • WiSe 2011/2012
  • SoSe 2006 Part II  
  • WiSe 2005/2006
  • SoSe 2004 Continuation of winter semester 2003/2004
  • WiSe 2003/2004

• The earliest Akkadian texts from Eres and Ebla (together with J. Wende)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2022

• Sumerian literary texts on the donkey and other equids

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2020

• Sumerian inscriptions and laws of the New Sumerian period

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2011

• New Sumerian inscriptions and laws

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2008/2009

• Sumerian texts on the underworld goddess Ereshkigal

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2008

• Literary bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) texts of the Middle Babylonian period (together with M. Ceccarelli)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2022/2023

• Sources on the history of Hammurapi of Babylon

• The Babylonian world creation epic Enuma elis

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2014

• Sargon's 8th campaign against Urartu.7.22. SS 2005 Introduction to Neolithic and Late Babylonian: Writing, Language, Reading

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2005

• "My lord shall not ride on horses": Old Babylonian texts on donkey, horse and mule

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2019/2020

• Small ancient Babylonian epics

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2008/2009

• Late Babylonian inscriptions by Nabonid and Adadguppi

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2006

• Old Babylonian letters

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2015/2016

• Ancient Babylonian incantations

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2021/2022
  • WiSe 2009/2010

  
  

• Old Babylonian literary texts

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2012/2013

• Old Babylonian hymns

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2011
  • SoSe 2009

  
  

• The Amurritic in personal names and borrowings in Old Babylonian texts

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2004/2005 (1 hour)

• New Assyrian scholarly letters

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2018/2019

• Israel and Judah under Neo-Assyrian rule (together with A. Berlejung).

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2005/2006

• Texts on the history of the Middle Assyrian period

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2006/2007

• Ugaritic reading

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2023: Part II
  • WiSe 2022/2023: Part I
  • WiSe 2020/2021: Ugaritic reading A
  • SoSe 2020: Part II
  • SoSe 2015: Ugaritic reading B
  • WiSe 2014/2015: Ugaritic reading A
  • SoSe 2014: Part II
  • WiSe 2011/2012 (4 hours)
  • WiSe 2009/2010: Introduction to Amurritic and Ugaritic
  • SoSe 2007: Part III
  • SoSe 2004: Part II

  
  

• Kingship in Egypt and Mesopotamia according to textual and pictorial sources (together with H. Kockelmann)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2021/2022

• Land of philologists: lexical lists in ancient Mesopotamia

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2015/2016

• Die Plejaden, die Siebengötter und die Astralisierung des Pantheons im Alten Mesopotamien

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2018

• Sumerian inscriptions of the ruler Gudea of Lagash

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2013

• Sumerian reading: Gudea inscriptions

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2018/2019
  • SoSe 2009

• The birth of Mathematics in Ancient Mesopotamia

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2008

• Assur and Babylon: The topography in cuneiform and archaeological sources (together with S. Herbordt)

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2012/2013

• Inscriptions of Assurbanipal

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • WiSe 2012/2013

• The Egyptian pharaoh's correspondence with the kings of Babylonia, Assyria and Mittani in the Amarna period

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2013

• The nomads on the Middle Euphrates according to texts from Mari

  university leipzig, ancient oriental studies:

  • SoSe 2004

• Euphrates, sheep and date palm. Regional studies of Mesopotamia (Lecture, 1 hour)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 2002/2003

• Reading of Akkadian texts for the lecture "Euphrates, sheep and date palm" (1 hour)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 2002/2003

• History of Mesopotamia (3000-300 BC). An overview (Lecture together with W. Sallaberger F. van Koppen and K. Radner)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 2002/2003

  
  

• The Old Babylonian. A linguistic and Semitic overview (Lecture, 1 hour)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 2002

• Lecture: The Amurrites - Nomads in Mesopotamia

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 1999/2000

• Einführung in die Altorientalische Philologie

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 1996/1997
  • WiSe 1995/1996

• Introduction to Late Babylonian

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1993

• Introduction to Old Babylonian

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1998 Part II
  • WiSe 1997/1998 Part I
  • SoSe 1994 Part II
  • WiSe 1993/1994 Part I
  • SoSe 1992 Part II
  • WiSe 1991/1992 Part I

  
  

• Introduction to Assyriology

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1999

• Introduction to Ugaritic

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 2001 (together with H. Rechenmacher)
  • SoSe 1999 (together with H. Rechenmacher)

  
  

• The Emergence of Early Legal Norms in the Ancient Near East

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 2000 (together with G. Ries)

• Ugaritic reading

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 2002

• Akkadian proverbs, fables and humorous tales

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1997

• Akkadian: Gilgamesh epic (Flood episode etc.).

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 2004 continued from WiSe 2003/2004)
  • SoSe 2003: The Flood Narrative in the Epic of Gilgamesh
  • WiSe 2003/2004: The Flood myth in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh
  • WiSe 1998/1999 Part II: Introduction and reading
  • SoSe 1998 Part I: Introduction and reading
  • SoSe 1995 (continued)
  • WiSe 1994/1995 (Flood episode etc.)

  
  

• Phonology of the Semitic languages (S. Weninger)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1996

• Comparative Semitic Onomastics (together with H. Rechenmacher and S. Weninger)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1998

• Hittite-Akkadian bilinguals (together with A. Ünal)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 1997/1998

• Akkadian texts with a Northwest Semitic background (together with M. Krebernik)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1997

• The nomads in Old Babylonian times according to selected source texts (simple Old Babylonian reading).

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • WiSe 1994/1995

• Cuneiform sources on the history of Babylonia in Hellenistic times (late Babylonian reading).

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 1995

• Assyriological colloquium (fortnightly with other lecturers of the institute)

  LMU Munich, Institute for Assyriology and Hittitology:

  • SoSe 2003
  • WiSe 2002/2003
  • SoSe 2002
  • WiSe 2001/2002
  • SoSe 2001
  • SoSe 2000
  • WiSe 1999/2000

  
  

• Amurritic and Amurritic I

  Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Bern:

  • SoSe 1999
  • WiSe 1998/1999

• Introduction to Babylonia and Babylonian in the First Millennium B. C. (six guest lectures as part of the international cooperation between the Universities of Munich and Prague)

  Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Karls-Universität, Prag:

  • April 1998

• Euphrates, sheep and date palm. Regional studies of Mesopotamia (Lecture, 1 hour)

  Eötvös-Universität, Budapest:

  • Oktober 2002 (10 lectures)

• Die altbabylonische Sprache in linguistischer und semitistischer Perspektive (10 Vorlesungen).

  Eötvös-Universität, Budapest:

  • Oktober 2002

• The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (as part of an Erasmus exchange)

  • Mai 2017: The Prologue of the Code of Hammurapi
  • März 2016: Neo- and Late Babylonian Letters

• Old Babylonian reading

  Seminar für Altorientalistik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg:

  • WiSe 2000/2001

• The destruction of Babylon under Sennacherib and the reconstruction under Asarhaddon and Assurbanipal

  Seminar für Altorientalistik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg:

  • WiSe 2000/2001

• Ludlul bel nemeqi

  Seminar für Altorientalistik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg:

  • WiSe 2000/2001

• The prologues of the Sumerian epics

  Seminar für Altorientalistik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg:

  • WiSe 2000/2001

• Introduction to the history of the Neo-Babylonian period

  Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena:

  • WiSe 2001/2002

  
  

• Easy Akkadian reading

  Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena:

  • WiSe 2001/2002