Karlheinz Kessler

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Karlheinz Kessler (born October 9, 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German Assyriologist .

Life

Karlheinz Kessler and his twin brother Dieter Kessler ( Egyptologist ) graduated from the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1967 . He then studied Latin and history as well as ancient oriental studies at the University of Tübingen . He completed his state examination in 1972 with the scientific work “Investigations into the influence of the emperor's biographies Suetons on the Vita Hadriani of the Historia Augusta” with Ernst Zinn and Jürgen Kroymann . During his studies he went on individual study trips to Egypt , Iraq , Lebanon , Syria and Turkey in preparation for his dissertation on the historical topography of northern Mesopotamia . His doctorate at the University of Tübingen took place in 1977. Many of the topographical investigations flowed into two historical maps of the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East (writings).

From 1979 to 1982 he was a consultant and epigraphist at the Baghdad department of the German Archaeological Institute . 1982-1986 he was a research assistant in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Department of Archeology of the Free University of Berlin and habilitated in May 1986 with the theme " Uruk . The houses west of the Eanna temple area ”. In November 1986 he was appointed Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Erlangen . He has been retired since 2014.

He was a member of various excavations as an epigraphist in Iraq ( Assur , Kār-Tukulti-Ninurta , Tell Imlihiye , Tell Zubeidi ) and Syria ( Tell Hamidiye , Tell Sheikh Hamad) .

Fonts (selection)

  • The number of Assyrian provinces of the year 738 BC In northern Syria. In: World of the Orient. 8, 1975, pp. 49-63. ISSN  0043-2547 .
  • Studies of the historical topography of northern Mesopotamia based on cuneiform sources from the 1st millennium BC. (= Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Series B, Humanities No. 26). Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-88226-023-8 .
  • Assyria until 800 BC. Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-88226-916-2 .
  • The New Assyrian Empire of the Sargonids (720–612 BC) and the New Babylonian Empire (612–539 BC). Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-88226-755-0 .
  • Uruk. Documents from private homes. The residential buildings west of the Eanna temple area. Part 1: The archives of the sons of Bēl-ušallim, Nabû-ušallim and Bēl-supê-muḫur. (= Excavations in Uruk-Warka. Volume 8). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1229-6 .
  • A temple baker broke into a Bīt Šutummu. In: Barbara Böck, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum , Thomas Richter (eds.): Munuscula Mesopotamica. Festschrift for Johannes Renger. (= Old Orient and Old Testament. Volume 267). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-927120-81-2 , pp. 245-257.
  • Late Babylonian deities in late ancient Mandaean texts with Christa Müller-Kessler. In: Journal of Assyriology. 89, 1999, pp. 65-87. ISSN  0084-5299 .
  • Hellenistic temple administration texts. A review of CT 49. In: Joachim Marzahn , Hans Neumann (eds.): Assyriologica et Semitica. Festschrift for Joachim Oelsner on the occasion of his 65th birthday on February 18, 1997. Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-927120-62-6 , pp. 213–242.
  • Urukean families versus Babylonian families. The naming in Uruk, the degradation of the cults of Eanna and the rise of the god Anu. In: Ancient Near Eastern Research. 31, 2004, pp. 237-262. ISSN  0232-8461 .
  • Lucian and Babylon. In: Manfred Krebernik, Hans Neumann (ed.): Babylonia and its neighbors in the new and late Babylonian times. Scientific colloquium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Joachim Oelsner Jena, March 2nd and 3rd, 2007. (= Old Orient and Old Testament. Volume 369). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-86835-077-7 , pp. 95-107.
  • Kār Aššur, Chalas (s) ar, Artemita. Assyrian fortress and Greek polis in the Apolloniatis. In: Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze et al. (Hrsg.): Small gods - big gods. Festschrift for Dieter Kessler on his 65th birthday. (= Tuna el-Gebel. Volume 4). Brose, Haar 2013, ISBN 978-3-944207-02-5 , pp. 273-285.

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personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Assyriologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart