Gernot Wilhelm
Gernot Wilhelm (born January 28, 1945 in Bad Laasphe ) is a German ancient orientalist .
Life
Gernot Wilhelm grew up in Wilhelmshaven , where he also passed his Abitur in 1964. In the summer semester of 1964, he began studying Assyriology , Ancient Asia Minor Philology and Near Eastern Archeology at the Free University of Berlin . His teachers included Einar von Schuler and Anton Moortgat . In the meantime, Wilhelm moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster for two semesters , where he heard from Wolfram von Soden , Peter Hartmann , Roland Harweg , Ruth Stiehl , Max Wegner and Karl Josef Narr . After his return to Berlin, teachers like Franz Köcher and Barthel Hrouda joined them. As early as 1968 Wilhelm began working on the institute's “Corpus of Hurrian Language Monuments” project. A long-term work with Volkert Haas and Ilse Wegner began here . In 1969 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the subject of "Investigations into Ḫurro-Akkadian von Nuzi".
A year later Wilhelm became a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the FU. Here he worked under the direction of Franz Köcher on the project "Babylonian-Assyrian Medicine". In the same year, however, he switched to the Saarland University as an assistant , where he was to receive a professorship after completing his habilitation. In addition to teaching, he was responsible for setting up an ancient oriental library. In 1972 he became one of the first assistant professors in Saarland and remained so until 1978. In 1972 he also took part in the excavation on Tell Kāmid el-Lōz in Lebanon , led by Rolf Hachmann . In addition, from 1972 to 1982 he acted as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg every winter semester, teaching there “Small Languages” of the Ancient Orient ( Hurrian language , Urartian language , Elamite language and Hattic language ).
Wilhelm's habilitation took place in 1975 at the University of Saarland with a thesis on "Large Private Estate in the Kingdom of Arrapcha ". This work also formed the basis for the multi-volume edition of the “Archive of Silwatessup”. While working on this project, Wilhelm spent several months at Harvard . After the assistant professorship expired in 1978, he was employed for three years as a research assistant in Saarbrücken . In 1981 he was appointed to a C2 professorship for ancient oriental studies at the University of Hamburg . From 1983 to 1985 he was also the managing director of the Archaeological Institute. In addition, from 1984 to 1986 Wilhelm was excavation manager with Italian colleagues on Tell Karrana-3 in the Eski-Mosul reservoir area in Iraq. In 1987 he turned down the offer to succeed Annelies Kammenhuber in Munich as professor of hittology . In 1988 Wilhelm was appointed to the C4 professor for Oriental Philology (renamed "Ancient Oriental Studies" since 2003) at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 2015 he retired.
From 1988 to 2016 Wilhelm was editor for the field of Hittitology of the Reallexikons für Assyriologie , from 1994 to 2005 of the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie . From 1990 to 1992 Wilhelm was a member of the Senate of the University of Würzburg and from 1992 to 2000 expert reviewer for the field of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology at the DFG , and until 1998 also as chairman of the expert committee for oriental cultures. From 1994 to 2000 he was also chairman of the German Orient Society , then deputy chairman until 2003. From 1994 to 2003 he was the excavation philologist for the excavation in Kusakli led by Andreas Müller-Karpe . From 2001 to 2009 he was also responsible for the excavation philology for the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in Hattusa / Boghazköy. From 1998 to 2000 and 2002 to 2004 Wilhelm was Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty I at the University of Würzburg.
Since 2000 Gernot Wilhelm has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . In 2001 he became chairman of the commission for the ancient Orient at the academy and head of the “Hittite Studies” project, which evaluates the excavations in Hattuscha . In 2006 he was elected Vice President of the Academy, from 2013 to 2017 he was President of the Academy. In 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago as well as honorary membership in the American Oriental Society and the German Orient Society , in 2013 the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg awarded him the X-ray Medal "for outstanding scientific achievements". In 2017 he received the Order of Merit of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Fonts
- Studies on urro-Akkadian by Nuzi , Kevelaer-Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970
- Basics of the history and culture of the Hurriter , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1982 ISBN 3-534-08151-X .
- The oriental city: Continuity, change, break (ed.), SDV, Saarbrücken 1997 (International Colloquium of the German Orient Society, vol. 1 / Colloquia of the German Orient Society, vol. 1) ISBN 3-930843-24-2 .
- Between the Tigris and the Nile. 100 years of excavations by the German Orient Society in the Middle East and Egypt (ed.), Von Zabern, Mainz 1998 ( Zabern's illustrated books on archeology / special issue of the ancient world ) ISBN 3-8053-2491-X .
- Files of the IV. International Congress for Hittitology (Ed.), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001 (Studies on the Bogazköy Texts, Vol. 45) ISBN 3-447-04485-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gernot Wilhelm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography with list of publications on the website of the University of Würzburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ member entry by Gernot Wilhelm in the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelm, Gernot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laasphe |