Fritz Rudolf Kraus

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Fritz Rudolf Kraus (born March 21, 1910 in Spremberg ; † January 19, 1991 ) was a German ancient orientalist .

Kraus, son of the converted Jewish textile manufacturer Siegfried Kraus (1870–1937) and a Protestant mother from Austria, studied antiquity in Munich and Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1935 under Benno Landsberger . In June 1937 he left Germany because as a half-Jew there were no more career prospects for him . He went to Istanbul , where Landsberger, who had also emigrated to Turkey, found him a position in the collection of cuneiform tablets in the Archaeological Museum . He has also taught at Istanbul University since 1941 . In 1949 he became associate professor for ancient Semitic philology and Near Eastern archeology at the University of Vienna ; here he also took on Austrian citizenship. From 1953 until his retirement in 1980 he was Professor of Assyriology at the University of Leiden .

literature

  • G. van Driel, Th. J. H. Krispijn et al. (Ed.): Zikir Šumim. Assyriological Studies Presented to FR Kraus on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Leiden 1982 (p. 485-491 list of publications).
  • Dietz-Otto Edzard : Fritz Rudolf Kraus. In: Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology 81, 1991, pp. 1–3.
  • Jan Schmidt: Exile in the Orient - The letters from Fritz Rudolf Kraus from Istanbul, 1937–1949. In: Ludmila Hanisch (ed.): The Orient in Academic Optics. Contributions to the genesis of a scientific discipline. Halle 2006, pp. 145–153.
  • Jan Schmidt: Fritz Rudolf Kraus in Istanbul (1937-1949) and the Development of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Turkey. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis 67, 2010, pp. 5–21.
  • Jan Schmidt: Catalog of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands. Minor collections. Brill, Leiden 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-22190-1 , pp. 110-138 ( full text on the person and the estate in the Leiden University Library )

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personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Fritz Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraus, Fritz R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1991