Claus Ambos

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Claus Ambos (* 1974 ) is a German ancient orientalist .

Life

From 1980 to 1984 he attended the Fritz Gansberg Elementary School in Wiesbaden and from 1984 to 1993 the Dilthey School in Wiesbaden. From 1993 to 1996 he studied Near Eastern antiquity , ancient Near Eastern studies and Indian art history at the Free University of Berlin and from 1996 to 1998 Assyriology, Near Eastern archeology and classical Indology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he received the degree Magister Artium on June 22, 1998 acquired. He completed his doctoral studies (1998–2002) in Heidelberg and at the University of Leipzig on September 16, 2002 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Heidelberg. The German National Academic Foundation supported him with a scholarship (1995–1998) and a doctoral scholarship (1999–2001). From 2002 to 2013 he was a research assistant at the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center 619 Ritual Dynamics - Sociocultural Processes from a Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective . As a fellow at the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , he led the project Spatial Planning, Norms and Law in the Historical Cultures of Europe and Asia together with Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner and Peter Eich .

After completing his habilitation , he was awarded the Venia legendi for Assyriology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg on January 13, 2010. In the summer semester 2011 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw . In the 2011/2012 winter semester, he held a chair at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From July 2013 to March 2017 he was a Heisenberg fellow at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Göttingen. The re- habilitation at the University of Göttingen took place on July 15, 2015. In the 2017 summer semester, he was a substitute professor at the Institute for Assyriology and Hittology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2018 he has been academic advisor to the Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In the winter semester 2018/19 there was another rehabilitation.

His main research interests are the perception and reconstruction of the past in the ancient Orient with the case study Uruk , cultural contact and transfer between the Near Eastern and India as well as social and economic structures in Babylonia in the ancient Babylonian period (with a focus on the sources of letters).

Fonts (selection)

  • Mesopotamian building rituals from the 1st millennium BC Chr. ISLET, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-9808466-2-8 (also dissertation, Heidelberg 2002).
  • as editor with Stephan Hotz , Gerald Schwedler and Stefan Weinfurter : Die Welt der Rituale. From antiquity to today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18701-6 .
  • as editor with Eftychia Stavrianopoulou and Axel Michaels : Transformations in Sacrificial Practices. From Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of an International Colloquium, Heidelberg, 12-14, July 2006 (= Performanzen. Intercultural studies on ritual, play and theater. Volume 15). LIT, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1095-5 .
  • as editor with Petra Rösch , Bernd Schneidmüller and Stefan Weinfurter: Image and ritual - visual cultures from a historical perspective . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-22250-6 .
  • as editor with Andreas H. Pries , Laetitia Martzolff and Robert Langer : Rituals as an expression of cultural contact , “syncretism” between negation and redefinition. Acts of the interdisciplinary conference of the collaborative research center “Ritual Dynamics” in Heidelberg, 3. – 5. December 2010 (= Studies in oriental religions. Volume 67). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 3-447-06911-2 .
  • as editor with Lorenzo Verderame : Approaching Rituals in Ancient Cultures: Questioni di rito: Rituali come fonte di conoscenza delle religioni e delle concezioni del mondo nelle culture antiche. Proceedings of the Conference, November 28-30, 2011, Roma (= Rivista degli Studi Orientali Nuova series LXXXVI. Supplementary volume 2). Serra, Pisa 2013, ISBN 978-88-6227-591-0 .
  • The King in Prison and the New Year Festival in Autumn: Mechanisms of Legitimacy of the Babylonian Ruler in the 1st Millennium BC BC and their history . ISLET, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814842-9-8 (also habilitation thesis, Heidelberg 2010).
  • as editor with Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner and Peter Eich: Raum -ordnung. Spatial concepts and socio-political orders in antiquity (= academy conferences. Volume 18). Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6429-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ambos, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974