Martha Haussperger

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Martha Haussperger (* August 12, 1925 - February 25, 2013 ) was a German internist , ancient orientalist and expert on ancient Mesopotamian medicine .

She completed her medical studies in 1956 with a doctorate , the dissertation dealt with "The objectification of post- commotional regulation disorders ". In 1973, as a doctor, she accompanied a research team led by the Near Eastern archaeologist Barthel Hrouda during excavations in Iraq. Encouraged by this, she took up a second degree in ancient history , Assyriology and Near Eastern archeology while working. In 1989 she received her doctorate from Hrouda with an investigation into the introductory scene on ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seals . In total she was involved in excavations in Mesopotamia for over 25 years.

In her later research she dealt mainly with the medical knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia . For these investigations she was awarded the Academy Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1999. In 2012 she published her extensive work on “Mesopotamian medicine from a medical point of view”, in which cuneiform texts on medicine from Mesopotamia are reproduced, translated, analyzed and assessed from a modern medical perspective.

She was most recently a resident doctor in Munich.

Fonts

  • The objectification of postcommotional regulatory disorders. Investigations with a shortened Schellong experiment. Dissertation, Munich 1956.
  • The introductory scene. Development of a Mesopotamian motif from the Old Akkadian to the end of the Old Babylonian period (= Munich Near Eastern Studies. Volume 11). Profil-Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-89019-272-6 (also dissertation, University of Munich 1989).
  • Mesopotamian medicine and its doctors from today's perspective. In: Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , 87/2 (1997), pp. 196-218.
  • Mesopotamian medicine from a medical point of view (= DWV writings on the history of medicine . Volume 12 / Specialized prose research - transgressions. Supplement 1). Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-86888-041-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on October 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Haussperger, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1925
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2013