Annelies Kammenhuber

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Annelies Kammenhuber (born March  19, 1922 in Hamburg , †  December 24, 1995 in Munich ) was an important German Hittite scientist .

life and work

Annelies Kammenhuber grew up in Hamburg as the daughter of a master locksmith. She also spent her school days in the Hanseatic city until she graduated from high school. After a short period of work during the National Socialist dictatorship, she began her studies at the University of Hamburg . She took a variety of subjects with a focus on the following philologies : English , Romance Studies , Classical Philology , Indology , Philosophy and Indo-European Studies . Delayed by the war, she studied from 1940 to 1950. In addition to Hamburg, Kammenhuber also studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, initially only for a short time, since 1946 permanently. Here she actively helped to rebuild the linguistic seminar, which was badly affected during the war. Walther Schubring , Ernst Fraenkel and Walther Wüst were among her teachers in Hamburg and Munich . For her academic future, Ferdinand Johann Sommer was to be particularly important. He introduced her to the still young science of Hittiteology . In 1950 she received her doctorate from Sommer with the thesis " The morphology of the Hittite verbal nouns on -uuanzi and -anna, -uuan, -uuar, -atar and -essar ".

After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant at the university and devoted herself to the ancient Anatolian languages. In 1958, however, she completed her habilitation with a thesis on another area, Iranian Studies : " Studies on the oldest videvdat, vol. I: Fargard 3 and the conceptions of the dead and 'canine magic' in the videvdat ". With this she obtained the license to teach Indo-European languages ​​of the ancient Orient . After Dorothee Grokenberger, she was only the second woman to qualify as a professor at the Munich Faculty of Philosophy . After her habilitation, she became a private lecturer , and in 1960 she became a dietician . As early as 1959 she was elected a member of the Société de Linguistique de Paris at the suggestion of Émile Benveniste and Emmanuel Laroche . In 1964 she was appointed adjunct professor, and two years later she was appointed Scientific Councilor. In 1968 she received the call as Extraordinaria at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome . In 1969 she returned to Munich, where she became a full professor at the newly established Institute for Assyriology and Hittology at the University of Munich. Until her retirement in 1987 she worked there as head of Hittite.

However, Kammenhuber did not limit her research to the Indo-European languages ​​of the ancient Orient; She was also interested in the region's non-Indo-European languages ​​such as Hattic or Hurrian . Her outstanding importance lies in her work on large research projects, for which she is very committed. During this work she wrote fundamental works, such as a contribution to the handbook of oriental studies " Hittite, Palaic, Luwish and Hieroglyphic Luwish " (1 section, 2 vol.). Her role in the revision of Johannes Friedrich's Hittite Dictionary was also outstanding . Her creation of a Hittite thesaurus and her work on the dating of ancient Anatolian texts are also fundamental .

Publications (selection)

  • Hippologia Hethitica. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1961.
  • The Aryans in the Middle East. Winter, Heidelberg 1968.
  • Oracle practice, dreams and inspection of signs among the Hittites (= texts of the Hittites. Vol. 7). Winter, Heidelberg 1976, ISBN 3-533-02494-6 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Winfried Müller: Laetitia Boehm (1930-2018). In: Historisches Jahrbuch 139 (2019), pp. 621–624, here: p. 621.
personal data
SURNAME Kammenhuber, Annelies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Hittite scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1995
Place of death Munich