Gerfrid GW Müller

Gerfrid GW Müller (* 1960 ) is a German ancient orientalist .

Life

In 1980 Müller studied Assyriology, Semitic Studies and Economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and from 1984 to 1986 cuneiform studies, Semitic Studies, Japanese and economic history at the University of Hamburg . In 1986 he went to study at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and then returned to Heidelberg University. In 1988 he co-founded the Heidelberger Orientverlag. He received his doctorate in Assyriology in 1990 with Karlheinz Deller in Heidelberg . From 1991 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Ancient Near Eastern Department of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , a member of the faculty council and the faculty council as well as data processing administrator of the department. The German Research Foundation funded him from 1997 to 2000 with a habilitation grant . In 1998 he lectured at the University of Cairo at the invitation of the Faculty of Classical Studies there. Since the habilitation in Münster 2001 with the habilitation thesis Inflation in Babylon. Studies on the economic and social history of Babylonia from the end of the 6th to the beginning of the 4th century BC Chr. He is coordinator and technical director of the research group web-based research cooperation at the University of Würzburg and technical director and organizer of the Hittitology portal Mainz.

Since 2007 he has been an expert on the IT commission of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . In 2008 he received his qualification for ancient oriental studies in Würzburg. In 2008 he represented the chair at the Free University of Berlin . From 2008 to 2012 he was head of the DFG project Systematic Bibliography in cooperation with Jana Siegelová . Since 2009 he has been chairman of the staff council of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Since 2010, together with Jörg Klinger, he has been head of the Hittite place names project in a joint project with the Topoi Cluster of Excellence . From 2010 to 2012 he and Mark Weeden led the joint project The Palaeography of Cuneiform Transmission: Old Hittite and Alalakh VII , funded by the British Academy . Since 2012 he has been the project coordinator of the 3D-Joins and Font Metrology project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

His main research interests are Akkadian studies, ancient oriental economic and social history, historical geography , digital infrastructures and recording methods for cuneiform texts and computer philology .

Fonts (selection)

Studies on the settlement geography and population of the Middle East Tigris area (= Heidelberg studies on the ancient Orient. Volume 7). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-927552-19-4 (also dissertation, Heidelberg 1990).
Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. Volume III, Delivery 4: Myths and Epics . Mohn, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-579-00075-6 .
London Nuzi texts (= SANTAG. Work and research on cuneiform writing. Volume 4). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04040-8 .
with Silvin Košak : Concordance of the Hittite cuneiform tablets. The indices ( Hittitologie Portal Mainz - materials. Volume 5) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05283-X .
as editor with Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Jörg Klinger: Diversity and standardization. Perspectives on social and political norms in the ancient Near East. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-05-005756-4 .
as editor with Elena Devecchi and Jana Mynářová : Current research in cuneiform palaeography. Proceedings of the workshop organized at the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Warsaw 2014. PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck 2015, ISBN 3-935012-18-7 .
as editor: liturgy or literature? The cult rituals of the Hittites. Workshop at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, December 2-3, 2010 (= studies on the Boğazköy texts. Volume 60). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-447-10627-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Gerfrid GW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1960