Enrique Jiménez
Enrique Jiménez (* 1985 in Granada ) is a Spanish ancient orientalist .
Life
In 2004 he received the Spanish National Award for Abitur graduates. From 2003 to 2008 he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid : classical philology with a focus on Indo-European linguistics; Graduated with distinction and from 2007 to 2012 Hebrew Philology; Degree with honors. In 2010 he was awarded the National Prize for Excellence in Academic Achievement, Spanish Minister of Education; Main prize. In 2010 he received the diploma for advanced studies (DEA, equivalent to a Magister). Title of the master's thesis: “La imagen de los vientos en la literatura mágica cuneiforme” (“The image of the winds in cuneiform magical literature”); Grading: very good with distinction (highest grade). From 2008 to 2013 he completed his doctorate as part of the doctorate in religious studies; Title of the thesis: “La imagen del viento en la literatura babilónica” (“The image of the wind in Babylonian literature”); Supervisor: Barbara Böck (CSIC); Grading: Cum Laude (highest grade); Dissertation Prize from Complutense University, Madrid (2014). From 2012 to 2013 he completed an extension course ( DAAD ) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 2013 to 2016 he was a research assistant at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations ( Yale University ) as part of the “Cuneiform Commentaries Project”. In 2015 he received first prize for the first post-doctoral article (International Assyriology Association). From 2017 to 2018 he had a postdoctoral contract at the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Philology (Complutense University, Madrid). In 2017 he received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize (€ 1,650,000) for the research project “Electronic Babylonian Literature” (eBL). Since 2018 he has been teaching as a professor (chair) for ancient oriental literatures at the LMU Munich .
His research interests are ancient oriental literature, ancient oriental science and Akkadian grammar.
Fonts (selection)
- La imagen de los vientos en la literatura babilónica . Madrid 2013.
- The Babylonian Disputation Poems. With Editions of Palm and Vine, the Series of the Poplar, the Series of the Spider, and the Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren . Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-33625-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jiménez, Enrique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish ancient orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Granada |