Ahmet Ünal

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Ahmet Ünal (* 1943 in Uşak ) is a Turkish ancient orientalist .

Life

After elementary and middle school and secondary school ( lise ) in Uşak and Balıkesir , he studied at the Universities of Ankara and Munich : as major subjects Ancient History and Hittiteology , as minor subjects Assyriology , Near Eastern Archeology and General Linguistics, World History, Ottoman, Arabic and English and also attended a teaching college. After completing his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Munich , he took part in the Turkish excavations in Alacahöyük and Kuşsaray and led the excavations in Çengeltepe near Yozgat . From 1972 to 1974 he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 1974 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Hittology at Ankara University . In 1975 he did military service as a lieutenant in the Jandarma . After completing his habilitation in 1979, he lectured in Ankara and was a visiting professor at the Selçuk Üniversitesi for ancient oriental, Greek and Roman history. From 1982 to 1985 he had a teaching position for Hittite and Hittite history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; He worked on the DFG project Hittite Dictionary by Annelies Kammenhuber . From 1985 to 1988 he was a research fellow at the Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago . From 1988 he taught as a professor of hittology at the LMU Munich and gave guest lectures at the universities of Bern , Adana , Konya and Antalya .

His main research interests are ancient Asia Minor studies, ie languages, history, historical geography and archeology of the second millennium BC. Chr .; Cuneiform and hieroglyphic Luwian , Palaic , Hattic , Hurrian and the languages ​​of the first millennium.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ḫattušili until his accession to the throne. Historical outline . Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 3-533-02395-8 .
  • Ḫattušili until his accession to the throne. Sources and indices . Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 3-533-02397-4 .
  • An oracle text about the intrigues at the Hittite court. KUB XXII 70 . Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 3-533-02704-X .
  • Studies in ancient Anatolian magical practices. The Hittite ritual of Ḫantitaššu from the city of Ḫurma against troublesome years . Ankara 1996, ISBN 975-16-0807-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ünal, Ahmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Usak