Blahoslav Hruška

Blahoslav Hruška (born May 5, 1945 in Český Brod near Prague , † June 26, 2008 in Trnava ) was a Czech archaeologist and ancient orientalist . In professional circles he was called Bibek .

Life

In 1962 he graduated from high school in Prague with distinction. After graduating from high school, he studied Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague with the Assyriologist Lubor Matouš and the archaeologist Jan Filip . In addition to the major subjects, he took courses in Egyptology , Arabic , Hebrew and the history of philosophy .

In 1967 he graduated. The thesis was entitled " The Babylonian Epic of the Plague God Erra ". In 1967 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , which led him to Munich, where he studied Sumerian with Dietz Otto Edzard and Claus Wilcke and cuneiform law with Herbert Petschow .

In 1969 he completed his Rigorosum in Akkadian , Ancient History , Archeology, Cuneiform, History of Philosophy and Sumerian, whereupon he became an assistant at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University . Here he taught Sumerian until 1971. In 1971 he began his research at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague and from 1992 at the Archaeological Institute in Prague , where he worked until his retirement in 2007.

From 1973 to 1989 he was editor and from 1989 to 1997 chief editor of the scientific journal Archiv Orientální . From 1974 to 1979 he worked with other scholars on a neo-numeric dictionary at the Instituto per gli Studi del Vicino Oriente .

From 1982 to 1984 he studied Mesopotamian agriculture at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1992 he was appointed visiting professor there. From 1990 to 1995 he worked on a project of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin to process excavations by Russian scientists in the Caspian region and the Caucasus .

Since 1993 he has been teaching at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague, since 1995 as a private lecturer and since 2005 as a professor. Since 1994 Hruška has been a member of the Committee of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale , Groupe F. In 1999 he became a member of the Czech Oriental Society , and in 2002 of the German Oriental Society . In 2007 he became a member of the International Association for Assyriology .

Fonts

• Encyclopedie mytologie starověkého Předního východu , 2003 ISBN 80-7277-188-4
• Sumerian agriculture , Max Planck Inst. for the history of science, Berlin 1995
• On the founding ritual in the Eninnu Temple , in: Munuscula Mesopotamica , ed. by Barbara Böck, 1999, ISBN 3-927120-81-2

literature

• Luděk Vacín: Blahoslav Hruška , in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin , number 140, 2008, Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach, ISSN  0342-118X , pp. 11–15.

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Blahoslav Hruška in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic