Konrad Volk

Konrad Volk (* 1955 in Lörrach ) is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and head of the Institute for the Cultures of the Ancient Near East there.

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With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , Volk studied Assyriology, Near Eastern archeology , musicology and Jewish studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute . In 1986 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on the Balag composition úru àm-ma-ir-ra-bi . He continued to work there until he moved to LMU Munich in 1994, where he also completed his habilitation in 1994 . In 1996 he participated in the project “Childhood and Education in Babylonia and Assyria” at the Ancient Near Eastern Institute of the University of Leipzig . After a rehabilitation in 1996, he was able to take up his professorship in Tübingen in 1998, which he still holds today.

His research focuses on the cultural history of the Ancient Near East, in particular the history of Sumerian literature and music, as well as social and religious history.

Fonts

• with Burkhart Kienast : The Sumerian and Akkadian letters of III. Millennium before the III. Dynasty of Ur . Stuttgart 1995.
• Inanna and Šukaletuda. For the historical-political interpretation of a Sumerian literary work . Wiesbaden 1995.
• Sumerian Literary Texts in the Martin Schøyen Collection (not yet published).
• as editor: Stories from the land of Sumer . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10413-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Volk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Konrad Volk  in the German Digital Library
• Homepage with list of publications at the University of Tübingen