Hans Neumann (ancient orientalist)

Hans Neumann (born May 9, 1953 in Erfurt ) is a German Assyriologist and professor at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Münster .

Neumann studied oriental archeology and philology at the University of Halle from 1971 to 1975 and received his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis on the organization of handicrafts in Mesopotamia at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Until 1991 he worked at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR . Until 1993 he received funding as part of the scientist integration program before he switched to the ancient oriental seminar at the Free University of Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1998 in order to work for two years in the Assur project in Heidelberg . There he also held a substitute professorship in the 1997/1998 winter semester.

Since 1999 Neumann has been Professor at and Director of the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Near Eastern Archeology in Münster, where he was also Vice Dean of the Philology Department from 2002 to 2006. Since 2003, with one interruption in 2009, he has been a member of the board of the Center for History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean and from 2003 to 2009 he was chairman of the German Orient Society , before Markus Hilgert succeeded him and is now deputy chairman.

Fonts (selection)

• Crafts in Mesopotamia. Investigations into its organization in the time of the III. Dynasty of Ur . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-05-000352-9 .
• Legal Practices and Their Socio-Economic Background in the Old Akkadian Period. A contribution to the law and society of early territorial states in Mesopotamia . / Habilitation thesis. In print.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Münster