Josef Klíma

Josef Klíma (born November 16, 1909 in Vienna , † November 30, 1989 in Prague ) was a Czech legal historian and Assyriologist who was particularly concerned with researching cuneiform writing rights .

Josef Klíma (1960)

Life

Klíma was born in Vienna, where his father held an important position in the Ministry of Commerce and attended a private Czech school there.

After the end of the First World War , his family moved to Prague . At the Charles University there , he studied from 1928 to 1932 mainly with Bedřich Hrozný , who worked closely with Mariano San Nicolò , who was teaching at the Karl Ferdinand University at the time and who was appointed to the chair previously held by Paul Koschaker . Until the beginning of the Second World War , he also studied classical philology and ancient history with research stays in Germany, France and Italy.

From 1935 he worked as a lawyer. His dissertation on Old Babylonian inheritance law , which was completed much earlier, was not accepted until 1947. Even after the war, he had to contend with considerable political restrictions in some cases.

Fonts

• Investigations into the old Babylonian inheritance law. In: monographs of the orientální archive. Volume 8. Prague, 1940.
• To the withdrawal of the right of inheritance in ancient Babylonian law. In: Festschrift Paul Koschaker. Volume 3. Weimar 1939, pp. 80-93.
• A few remarks on the meaning of the “non-legal” components of the Old Babylonian legal works. In: Journal of Juristic Papyrology. 5, 1951, pp. 161-186.

literature

• Richard Haase : The memory of the dead. Josef Klíma (November 16, 1909 - November 30, 1989) . In: Archive for Orient Research . tape 36 (1989/1990) , pp. 194-197 .