Piotr Taracha
Piotr Taracha (* 1960 ) is a Polish Hittitologist and archaeologist . He is professor at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Warsaw University and lecturer in Aegean Archeology at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences . His areas of specialization are Hittite religion as well as Hittite and Hattic language and literature as well as Aegean and Anatolian archeology.
Piotr Taracha studied at the University of Warsaw from 1978 to 1983. In 1993 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Bronze Age weapons and combat technology in the Aegean and then began teaching at the University of Warsaw. Since then he has been working closely with various German universities.
He submitted his habilitation thesis on a Middle Hittite ritual in 2000. Piotr Taracha became a professor at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw in 2004.
Books
- Replace and Atonement. The Middle Hittite substitute ritual for the great king Tuthalija (CTH * 448.4) and related texts ; Brill, 2000. ISBN 90-04-11910-8 (habilitation thesis)
- Silva Anatolica. Anatolian Studies Presented to Maciej Popko on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday . Agade, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 978-8-387-11112-0 , pp. 143-146 (editor)
- Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05885-8
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| SURNAME | Taracha, Piotr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish Hittite scientist and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |