Maximilian Streck

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Maximilian Streck (born October 18, 1873 in Pfarrkirchen ; † March 25, 1945 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German ancient orientalist .

Maximilian Streck, the son of a lawyer, attended elementary school and grammar school in Straubing and from 1893 studied oriental studies at the universities in Munich and Leipzig , where he was particularly influenced by Albert Socin and Heinrich Zimmer . In 1898 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . Then Streck returned to the University of Munich and habilitated there in 1900 with Fritz Hommel for Semitic Philology. In the same year he moved to the University of Berlin , and in the summer semester of 1905 to the University of Strasbourg .

In 1908, Streck was appointed associate professor for Semitic Philology, Turkish and New Persian at the University of Würzburg . In 1916 the associate professor was converted into a chair and Streck was appointed associate professor with the rank, title and rights of full professor. Streck remained in this office until his retirement in 1939.

As a researcher and academic teacher, Streck was a generalist. He specialized in the written legacies of the Middle East and reconstructed the history of various regions in ancient times. His comprehensive, extensively commented edition of the writings from the time of Assurbanipal (1916) is a fundamental work and has not been replaced to this day.

Fonts (selection)

  • Armenia, Kurdistan and Western Persia, according to the Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions . Leipzig 1898 (partial print of the dissertation)
    • Armenian translation: Hayastan, K'rdastan ew Arewmtean Parskastan babelakan-asorestaneay sepagrerow hamajayn . Vienna 1906
  • The ancient landscape of Babylonia according to the Arab geographers . Two parts, Leiden 1900–1901 (extended habilitation thesis). Reprinted in Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Cuneiform contributions to the geography of the Middle East . Berlin 1906
  • Ashurbanipal and the last Assyrian kings until the fall of Nineveh . Three parts, Leipzig 1916. Reprint Leipzig 1975
    • Part 1: Introduction: The documentary material, chronology and history
    • Part 2: Texts: The inscriptions of Ashurbanipal and the last Assyrian kings
    • Part 3: Register: glossary, list of proper names, final addenda and minor corrections
  • Seleucia and Ctesiphon . Leipzig 1917

literature

  • Ludmilla Hanisch: The successors of the exegetes. German-language exploration of the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 208.

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personal data
SURNAME Streck, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streck, Karl Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Parish churches
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1945
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck