Hermann Hunger

Hermann Hunger (born June 30, 1942 in Bautzen ) is an Austrian ancient orientalist (Assyriologist) and astronomy historian.

Hermann Hunger, son of the Byzantinist Herbert Hunger , studied oriental studies at the University of Vienna after graduating in 1960 . In 1963/64 he studied Assyriology and Arabic at the University of Heidelberg and from 1964 to 1966 at the University of Münster , where he received his doctorate in Assyriology and Semitic philology in 1966 under Wolfram von Soden ( Babylonian and Assyrian colophones ). From 1967 to 1970 he was a consultant at the German Archaeological Institute in Baghdad . From 1970 to 1973 he was Research Associate at the University of Chicago and then until 1976 assistant at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna, where he completed his habilitation. From 1976 to 1978 he was Associate Professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and from 1978 he was Associate Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, where he retired in 2007.

He is considered one of the leading authorities on Babylonian astronomy history , where he worked early with Otto Neugebauer and Abraham Sachs , and later with David Pingree . He was instrumental in the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary .

Hunger is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Austrian Academy of Sciences , of which he is chairman of the Commission for the History of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Medicine and the Mycenaean Commission . In 2010 he became an honorary member of the American Oriental Society . Hunger is co-editor of the Archive for Orient Research .

Fonts (selection)

Late Babylonian texts from Uruk (= excavations of the German Research Foundation in Uruk-Warka. 9). Volume 1. Mann, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-7861-2215-6 (also: Marburg, University, habilitation paper, 1982).
with Francis R. Stephenson , Christopher BF Walker: Halley's Comet in History. British Museum, London 1985, ISBN 0-7141-1118-X .
with David Pingree : MUL.APIN. An Astronomical Compendium in Cuneiform (= Archive for Orient Research . Supplement. 24). Berger, Horn 1989.
as editor: Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (= State Archives of Assyria. 8). Helsinki University Press, Helsinki 1992, ISBN 951-570-130-9 .
as editor and editor: Abraham Sachs : Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. 7 volumes. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1988–2014.
with David Pingree: Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Dept. 1: The Near and Middle East. Vol. 44). Brill, Leiden et al. 1999, ISBN 90-04-10127-6 .

Hunger, Hermann. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1989/90. 140th year, Vienna 1990, p. 90.

personal data
SURNAME	Hunger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ancient orientalist and astronomy historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bautzen