Rykle Borger

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Rykle Borger (also Riekele Borger , born May 24, 1929 in Wieuwerd, municipality of Littenseradiel , Friesland ; † December 27, 2010 in Göttingen ) was a German Assyriologist of Dutch origin who was professor of ancient oriental studies at the University of Göttingen from 1962 to 1997 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Breda , Borger studied Oriental Studies and Evangelical Theology at the University of Leiden from 1946 . After completing a Rigorosum in Oriental Studies (1951) and Theology (1952) and completing his doctorate in Leiden, Borger worked as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen (1954–1955) and at the University of Vienna (1955–1957). In 1958 he returned to Göttingen as a lecturer in Assyriology and completed his habilitation in 1959 with Wolfram von Soden . Borger then worked as a lecturer at the Göttingen seminar for cuneiform script research until he was given a full professorship for ancient oriental studies with a focus on Assyriology there in 1962. Since 1978 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

In December 2009, Borger successfully applied for German citizenship at the age of 80 (after 53 years in Germany).

Borgers research focus included the edition of Assyrian texts, biblical philology as well as text bibliography, grammatology (scripture theory) and lexicography . Among other things, he wrote the Handbook of Cuneiform Literature (Göttingen 1967).

Fonts (selection)

  • The inscriptions of Asarhaddon, King of Assyria , Graz 1956. Reprint Osnabrück 1967.
  • Introduction to the Assyrian royal inscriptions , Leiden 1961. Second edition 1964.
  • Babylonian-Assyrian Readings , three volumes, Rome 1963.
  • Handbook of cuneiform literature , three volumes, Berlin / New York 1967–1975.
  • Akkadian list of symbols, Kevelaer / Neuenkirchen-Vlyun 1971.
  • Three classicists - Alma Tadema, Ebers, Vosmaer. With a bibliography of the works of Alma Tadema , Osnabrück 1978.
  • Assyrian-Babylonian list of symbols, two volumes, Kevelaer / Neuenkirchen-Vlyun 1978–1981. Reprinted 1981, 1986, 1988.
  • Akkadian Law Books. Codex Eschnunna, Codex Hammurapi, Central Assyrian and New Babylonian laws. In: Otto Kaiser (Ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament . Law books. Gütersloh 1983.
  • Assyrian State Treaties. In: Otto Kaiser (Ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. State treaties. Gütersloh 1982.
  • The chronology of the Darius monument on Behistun rock , Göttingen 1982.
  • Historical texts in Akkadian from Babylonia and Assyria. In: Otto Kaiser (Ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. Historical-chronological texts I. Gütersloh 1984.
  • The Behistun inscription of Darius the Great. Together with Walther Hinz. In: Otto Kaiser (Ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. Historical-chronological texts I. Gütersloh 1984.
  • Ancient oriental lexicography, history and problems. On the completion of W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch , Göttingen 1984.
  • Contributions to the inscriptions of Assurbanipal , Wiesbaden 1997.
  • The bow quiver in the Old Orient, in antiquity and in the Old Testament , Göttingen 2000.
  • Mesopotamian dictionary of symbols , Münster 2004.

literature

  • Wilfried Kürschner: Linguisten-Handbuch , Tübingen 1997, pp. 91-92.
  • Stefan Maul : Rykle Borger , in Journal for Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology 101/2011, pp. 161–169.

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personal data
SURNAME Borger, Rykle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borger, Riekele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Assyriologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wieuwerd
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2010
Place of death Goettingen