Joost Hazenbos

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Joost Hazenbos (born May 3, 1962 in Maastricht ) is a Dutch ancient orientalist .

Joost Hazenbos studied Anatolian languages ​​(including Akkadian ), Latin (including ancient Greek ) and Sumerian at the Universiteit van Amsterdam from autumn 1979 to early 1989 . He passed his doctoral examination with the grade cum laude (master’s examination) in February 1989 and was qualified to teach Latin and ancient Greek. Since autumn 1988 he had been working as a high school teacher in the two ancient languages ​​in Amsterdam ; until spring 1996 he taught at a total of three Amsterdam schools. From summer 1991 to spring 1996, Hazenbos was a doctoral student ( Onderzoeker in Opleiding ) in addition to his teaching post . He received his doctorate on March 30, 1998 with Theo van den Hout , the title of the dissertation was The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults during the 13th Century BC From April 1996 he was a research assistant, then from April 1998 to August 1998 research assistant at Ancient Oriental Institute of the University of Leipzig . Even after that, he was able to continue working in Leipzig as a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation until October 2000, where he was again employed as a research assistant from 2000 to April 2007. Hazenbos was on leave for the last year in Leipzig. His habilitation took place on December 14, 2003 with the thesis “We asked an oracle question”: Investigations into the Hittite oracle texts , then he received the venia legendi and was also able to teach as a private lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies with a focus on Hittiteology in Leipzig. In the summer semester of 1999 he was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and several times between 1999 and 2004 at the University of Bern . Since January 1, 2006 Hazenbos has been teaching as an adjunct professor for Hittite and related Anatolian languages ​​as well as the history of Anatolia in the pre-classical period at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Since May 1, 2006 he has been a research assistant at the Hittite Dictionary at the Institute for Assyriology and Hittology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Here he is responsible for the preparation for the printing of deliveries 18 and 20 of the same and is involved in an advisory capacity for the other deliveries. In the three winter semesters between 2009 and 2012 he represented Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum , and in 2010/11 Jörg Klinger at the Free University of Berlin.

As a Hittite scientist, Hazenbos primarily deals with the Hittite philology , especially the lexicography and the cultural history of the Hittites as well as with the Hurrian and Urartian grammar, especially their syntax .

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  • The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults during the 13th Century BC. An appraisal of the Hittite cult inventories . Brill / Styx, Leiden 2003, ISBN 978-90-04-12383-0 (Cuneiform Monographs, Volume 21)

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