Stefan Maul

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Stefan Mario Maul (born December 24, 1958 in Aachen ) is a German ancient orientalist and recipient of the Leibniz Prize .

Life

Stefan Maul studied Assyriology , Near Eastern Archeology and Egyptology at the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1987 under Rykle Borger . From 1987 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant and until 1995 as an assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1993. Since 1995 he has been full professor for Assyriology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Since 2004 Maul has headed the research center of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences “Edition of literary cuneiform texts from Assur”.

He has also been a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Orient Society since 1994, a corresponding member since 1995 and a member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute since 2001 . In 1997 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize for his research. In 1998 he was elected a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , 2003 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and 2012 a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Dealing with the future: an examination of ancient oriental thought based on the Babylonian-Assyrian rituals of dissolution (Namburbi). von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1618-6 .
  • Weeping from sadness. The death of the Enkidu. In: Claus Ambos, Stephan Hotz, Gerald Schwedler, Stefan Weinfurter (eds.): The world of rituals. From antiquity to today. Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18701-6 , p. 22ff.
  • The Tall Taban inscriptions (excavation campaigns 1997–1999). The kings of Tabetu and the land of Mari in Central Assyrian times. Tokyo, Kokushikan Univ., Inst. For Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq 2005.
  • The Gilgamesh Epic. newly translated and commented by Stefan M. Maul. 6th edition. Munich, Beck 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-52870-5 .
  • The art of fortune telling in the ancient Orient . Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64514-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . No. 2015.1 , 2016, p. 40 .
  2. ↑ Member entry by Stefan Maul (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Maul, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maul, Stefan Mario (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist and recipient of the Leibniz Prize
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen