Amélie Kuhrt

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Amélie Kuhrt (* 1944) is a retired British historian specializing in the history of the Middle East .

Kuhrt completed her studies and academic training at King's College London , University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies .

She taught at University College London as Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History and dealt with the social and economic history as well as the political history of the Middle East between 3000 and 100 BC. She presented works on the Assyrians and Babylonians , the empires of the Persians and the Seleucids .

She co-organized the workshop on the Achaemenid Empire between 1983 and 1990. Her work The Ancient Near East c.3000-330 BC won the 1997 by the American History Association ausgelobten James Henry Breasted Prize for the best historical book for the period before 1000, which in was written in English. Kuhrt has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2001.

Publications (selection)

  • Babylonia from Cyrus to Xerxes , in: John Boardman (Ed.): The Cambridge Ancient History , Volume IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982, pp. 112-138 (2nd ed. 1988) .
  • as ed. with Susan M. Sherwin-White: Hellenism in the East. The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander , University of California Press, Berkeley 1987, ISBN 0-520-06054-7 .
  • with Susan Sherwin-White: From Samarkhand to Sardis. A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire , Duckworth, London 1993, ISBN 0-7156-2413-X .
  • with Averil Cameron (Ed.): Images of Women in Antiquity , Routledge, London 1993.
  • The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC , Routledge, London 1995.
  • The Persian Empire. A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period , 2 volumes, Routledge, London and New York 2007 (Paperback 2010).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ James Henry Breasted Prize Recipients , American History Association.
  2. ^ Directory of Fellows - K , British Academy, archive.org, June 11, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kuhrt, Amélie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1944