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Hans Martin Kümmel (born December 30, 1937 in Zurich ; † July 30, 1986 at Tittling ) was a German ancient orientalist and professor in Marburg .

Hans Martin Kümmel was the second son of the theologian Werner Georg Kümmel ; he studied ancient oriental studies, indology and religious studies in Marburg and Münster. With a Hittitological dissertation he received his doctorate in 1966 under Heinrich Otten . He then became an assistant to Wolfgang Röllig at the University of Tübingen, where he completed his habilitation with a prosopographical thesis on the late Babylonian Uruk . From 1975 he worked at the University of Hamburg, and in 1980 he became Ottens successor in Marburg. In 1986 he died in a traffic accident in Bavaria.

His brother is the medical historian Werner Friedrich Kümmel , his son the Indo-Europeanist Martin Joachim Kümmel .

Fonts

  • Replacement rituals for the Hittite king (= studies on the Boǧazköy texts . Volume 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967.
  • Family, job and office in late Babylonian Uruk (= treatises of the German Orient Society. Volume 20). Mann, Berlin 1979.
  • Non-literary texts in Akkadian language (= cuneiform texts from Boghazköi. Volume 28). Mann, Berlin 1985.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Dedication in Martin Joachim Kümmel: The perfect in Indo-Iranian. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, p.