Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer

Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer is an Austrian Hittite scientist .

Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer was born in 1975 at the University of Munich with a dissertation on the topic “Arzawa. Investigation into its history based on the Hittite sources ”. She currently teaches at the University of Salzburg . She became known to a broader public at the beginning of the 2000s, when she intervened in the Troy debate triggered by a dispute between the Tübingen scientists Manfred Korfmann and Frank Kolb and took a critical position here on equating Wilusa and Troy .

Heinhold-Krahmer is a member of the Mycenaean Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . It publishes the series "Texts of the Hittites".

Today she lives in Feldkirchen-Westerham in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps with her husband, the professor of business administration Michael Heinhold .

Fonts

• Arzawa. Analysis of its history based on the Hittite sources , Winter, Heidelberg 1977 (= texts of the Hittites ) ISBN 3-533-02587-X
• Problems of text dating in Hittitology. Contributions to controversial dating criteria for texts from the 15th-13th centuries Century BC Chr. , Winter, Heidelberg 1979 (= texts of the Hittites 9) ISBN 3-533-02845-3
• Has the identity of Ilios with Wiluša been finally proven? . In: Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 45, 2004, 29–57 (article worth reading, which deals well with the problems of the localization of Wilusas and the possible identification with Ilios).
• To equate the names Ilios-Wilusa and Troia-Taruisa. In: Christoph Ulf (ed.): The new dispute over Troy. A balance sheet. Beck, Munich 2003, pp. 146–168 (the article largely corresponds to the above).

Remarks

1. ^ Old myths repackaged , Morgenpost from August 26, 2003.