Andreas Fuchs (ancient orientalist)

Andreas Fuchs (born September 6, 1960 in Mannheim ) is a German ancient orientalist .

Life

Since 1980 he has studied Assyriology, Arabic and ethnology at the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1993 . From 1994 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . The German Research Foundation funded him from 1998 to 1999 with a habilitation grant . From 1999 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the University of Tübingen , where he on 17 November 2004 habilitation was. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the Ancient Near Eastern Department of the University of Tübingen, which awarded him the title of adjunct professor in 2008 .

His research focuses on royal inscriptions and letters of the Neo-Assyrian period , cultural history of the ancient Near East at this epoch and the historical topography and the Military History Ancient Near East .

Fonts (selection)

• The inscriptions of Sargon II from Khorsabad . Cuvillier, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-930340-42-9 (also dissertation, Göttingen 1993).
• The annals of the year 711 BC After prism fragments from Nineveh and Assyria (= State archives of Assyria studies. Volume 8). Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki 1998, ISBN 951-45-8410-4 .
• Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern provinces (= State archives of Assyria studies. Volume 15). Helsinki University Press, Helsinki 2001, ISBN 951-570-496-0 .

Web links

• Biography with list of publications on the website of the University of Tübingen