Karlheinz Deller

Karlheinz Deller (born February 21, 1927 in Nuremberg ; † December 20, 2003 in Heidelberg ) was a German Assyriologist .

After a short military service in 1945, he initially studied Islamic studies at the University of Tübingen from 1946 to 1948 . In 1948 he entered the Jesuit novitiate and studied from 1950 to 1953 at the Berchmann College in Pullach , where he graduated with a licentiate in philosophy. 1952 to 1953 he studied Semitic Studies at the University of Munich . In 1953 he began studying Assyriology at the University of Göttingen , which he continued at the University of Vienna from 1959 . In Vienna he received his doctorate in 1959 with Wolfram von Soden with a thesis on the "phonetic theory of neo-Assyrian" and had a teaching assignment for Akkadian from 1961 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1967 he was Professor of Assyriology at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome. From 1967 to 1995 he taught as a professor for ancient oriental studies at the University of Heidelberg .

literature

• Gerlinde Mauer, Ursula Magen (ed.): Ad bene et fideliter seminandum. Ceremony for Karlheinz Deller on February 21, 1987. Old Orient and Old Testament 220. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1988 (with list of publications; supplements ; PDF; 57 kB).
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933-1986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , pp. 155-156.