Annette Zgoll

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Annette Zgoll (2008)

Annette Zgoll née Ganter (* 1970 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German ancient orientalist . Her research interests include Sumerian and Babylonian-Assyrian literature and religion, as well as research into myths.

Life

She is the daughter of Martin Ganter from Heidelberg, a German writer, philosopher, physicist, educator and university professor. While still at school, Zgoll won the state competition "Old Languages" in Baden-Württemberg (1987) and received the Greek prize (1988). As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , she studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Egyptology and Old Testament from 1988 to 1992 at the universities of Münster (until 1990) and Munich . After submitting her master's thesis on the subject of Akkadian hand-raising prayers to Ištar - studies on literary form , she passed her master's examination with distinction in July 1992. She then completed a doctoral degree with Assyriology as a major and Egyptology and the Old Testament as a minor. The subject of her dissertation was the Sumerian song of the high priestess En-hedu-anna . She completed her Rigorosum in 1996 with the grade summa cum laude ; the dissertation was published in 1997 under the title The legal case of the En-hedu-Ana in the Sumerian song nin-me-shara in the series Old Orient and Old Testament . In 1998 she was awarded the doctoral prize of the University of Munich.

From 1999 to 2002 Zgoll worked as a research assistant at the Ancient Near Eastern Institute of the University of Leipzig , where she qualified as a university lecturer in 2001 with the text Dream and World Experience in Ancient Mesopotamia: Contributions to a Cultural History of Dreaming and was promoted to senior assistant in 2002. As a private lecturer with the venia legendi for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, she took over the management of the Ancient Near Eastern Institute in the 2003 summer semester. In the summer semester of 2008 she accepted a professorship for Christian Gottlob Heyne in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Göttingen , where she has also been Managing Director since then. In January 2010 she was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Annette Zgoll has been married to the classical philologist Christian Zgoll (3 children) since 1997 , with whom she established a comprehensive theory and methodology of myth research and researched it in various research associations.

Works (selection)

  • Mythical change of spheres. De Gruyter, Berlin 2020
  • Dream and world experience in ancient Mesopotamia. Ugarit-Verl., Münster 2006 V.
  • The art of praying. Ugarit-Verl., Münster 2003
  • The legal case of the En-ẖedu-Ana in the song nin-me-šara. Ugarit-Verl., Münster 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Public Relations: Prof. Dr. Annette Zgoll - Georg-August University of Göttingen. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Public Relations: Mythosprojekte - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zgoll, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganter, Annette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau