Karen Radner

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Karen Radner (* 1972 ) is an Austrian ancient orientalist .

Life

She studied ancient Semitic philology and oriental archeology at the University of Vienna , including a study visit to the Free University of Berlin (1993–1994). She received her master's degree summa cum laude in 1994. She received her doctorate summa cum laude and sub auspiciis in 1997 . In November 2004 she was granted the license to teach and in January 2005 the license to teach at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She worked as a researcher at the University of Helsinki (1997–1999), the University of Tübingen (1999), the LMU Munich (1999–2005) and the University College London (2005–2015). As a visiting professor she taught at the University of Verona (2005), at the University of Innsbruck (2008), at UCL Qatar , Doha (since 2013) and at Koç Üniversitesi , Istanbul (2015).

Since August 2015 she has been Alexander von Humboldt Professor for the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich. In 2016 she was elected as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Neo-Assyrian private legal documents as a source for people and the environment (= State archives of Assyria studies. Volume 6). Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki 1997, ISBN 951-45-7783-3 (also dissertation, Vienna 1997).
  • The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 1 / I: A . Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki 1998, ISBN 951-45-8163-6 .
  • The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 1 / II. B-G . Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki 1999, ISBN 951-45-8645-X .
  • A neo-Assyrian private archive of the temple goldsmiths of Assur (= studies on the Assyrian texts. Volume 1). Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken 1999, ISBN 3-930843-44-7 (also diploma thesis, Vienna 1994).
  • New Assyrian legal documents II (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. Volume 98). Hinrichs, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-930843-58-7 .
  • The Neo-Assyrian texts from Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad (= reports of the excavation Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad / Dūr-Katlimmu. Volume 6). Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-02746-0 .
  • The Central Assyrian clay tablet archive of Giricano, Dunnu-sa-Uzibi (= Subartu. Volume 14). Brepols, Turnhout 2004, ISBN 2-503-51581-9 .
  • The power of the name. Ancient oriental strategies for self-preservation (= SANTAG - work and research on cuneiform writing. Volume 8). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05328-3 (also habilitation thesis, Munich 2004).
  • as editor with Eleanor Robson : The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-955730-1 .
  • as editor: State Correspondences of the Ancient World from the New Kingdom to the Roman Empire. From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire (= Oxford Studies in Early Empires ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-935477-1 .
  • Ancient Assyria (= Very short introductions. Stimulating ways in to new subjects. Volume 424). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871590-0 .
  • with Peter A. Miglus and Franciszek M. Stępniowski : Excavations in Assur: residential quarters in the Weststadt, part I (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. Volume 152). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-447-10742-6 .
  • as editor with Florian Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squitieri : Exploring the Neo-Assyrian Frontier with Western Iran: The 2015 Season at Gird-i Bazar and Qalat-i Dinka (= Peshdar Plain Project Publications. Volume 1). PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck 2016, ISBN 3-935012-20-9 ( online ).
  • as editor with Florian Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squitieri: Unearthing the Dinka Settlement Complex: The 2016 Season at Gird-i Bazar and Qalat-i Dinka (= Peshdar Plain Project Publications. Volume 2). PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck 2017, ISBN 978-3-935012-28-7 ( online ).
  • Mesopotamia. The early civilizations on the Euphrates and Tigris . Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-406-71406-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academician
personal data
SURNAME Radner, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972