Muchammad Abdulkadyrovich Dandamaev

Mukhammad Abdulkadyrowitsch Dandamajew ( Russian Мухаммад Абдулкадырович Дандамаев * 2 September 1928 in Untschukatl, Rajon sheets , Dagestan ASSR ; † 28. August 2017 ) was a Russian Assyriology and research director at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .

Career

Dandamajew studied from 1948 to 1952 at the Faculty of History at the State Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and from 1954 to 1958 at the Institute of History at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1959 he received his doctorate on the Behistun inscription as a source for Darius I's reign . From 1959 to 1965 he was a junior researcher at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Leningrad; from 1966 to 1997 senior researcher and dean of the faculty for ancient oriental studies. In 1975 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on slavery in Babylonia. Since 1997 he has been the research director of the institute and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1976 Dandamajew received the Ghirshman Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris and in 1987 the State Prize of the USSR . He was visiting professor at the universities of London, Oxford, Geneva, Zurich, Haifa, Columbia, Chicago and New York.

Publications (selection)

• Persia under the first Achaemenids (6th century BC) (1976)
• Slavery in Babylonia from Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 BC) (1984)
• with VG Lukonin: The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran (1989)
• A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire (1989)
• Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia (1992)

Web links

• Homepage at the Institute for Oriental Manuscripts, St. Petersburg