Thomas Richard Chamberlain

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Thomas Richard Kämmerer (born June 27, 1962 in Göttingen ) is a German ancient orientalist and publisher .

Education

Thomas Richard Kämmerer studied ancient Near Eastern philology , Near Eastern antiquity and philosophy at the universities of Münster , Bochum and Munich . In 1987 he became a member of the Corps Isaria . In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of Münster .

activity

After working as an associate professor at the University of Tartu , he took over the newly established chair for ancient oriental languages ​​and cultures in 2003. In 2007 he founded the Baltic Department of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Naples, in Tartu. From 2004 to 2013 he was chairman of the Estonian network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria and special representative of the Republic of Estonia for the Mediterranean Union. He was a member of the advisory board of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria.

Since 2008 he has been working on the methodology of a “comparative poetology ”, which he has since represented with colleagues from the Universities of Tartu and Münster by means of the international project Database for Ancient and Classical Poetical Devices (DACPD).

Since 2009 he has published the Acta Antiqua Mediterranea et Orientalia (AAMO) in the Münster series AOAT. The first volume appeared in the series Supplements to the Journal for Old Testament Science . In autumn he founded the Research Center for Ancient Near-Eastern and Mediterranean Studies (CAMC) at the University of Tartu / Dorpat together with colleagues from the University of Münster and the University of Helsinki, of which he is a board member.

On July 2, 2012, he took over the rights to Ugarit-Verlag , which he is now continuing with Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz (1928–2014) as an independent specialist publisher for East Mediterranean antiquity.

In 2019, Ugarit-Verlag added Chinese-language specialist literature on Chinese antiquity to its program as an extension of its program.

Since 2020, Ugarit-Verlag has made copies of the extensive and unique photo collection of cuneiform tablets from Ugarit available.

Fonts

(Selection)

  • Šimâ milka. Induction and reception of the Middle Babylonian poetry of Ugarit, Emar and Tell el-Amarna (= Old Orient and Old Testament . Vol. 251). Ugarit, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-927120-47-2 (dissertation, University of Münster, 1996).
  • (with Dirk Schwiderski) German-Akkadian dictionary (= Old Orient and Old Testament . Vol. 255). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-927120-66-9 .
  • (with Kai Metzler) The Babylonian epic of creation of the world Enūma elîš (= Old Orient and Old Testament . Vol. 375). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86835-036-4 .
  • Cultic-political relations between the cult sites up the Euphrates, Mari, Terqa, Tuttul, Emar and Aleppo, presented as a reciprocal field of tension . Old Orient and Old Testament 390 (3), 9–20, Münster 2014.
  • City foundation and urban planning. Myth and Reality in Ancient Near East . Old Orient and Old Testament 390 (2), 139–148, Münster 2014.
  • Lill, A .; Kôiv, M .; Funke, P .; Neumann, H .; Kämmerer, TR (Eds.) (2011). Identities and Societies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: Comparative approaches . Old Orient and Old Testament 390 (1), Münster 2011.
  • To justify the disregard for the 'wise order' in the Keret epic. Cuneiform Monographs (126-134) BRILL Academic Publishers 2010.
  • Religious identity of an ancient religious community, shown in the Babylonian Enūma eliš epic . Old Orient and Old Testament (66–80). Munster 2010.
  • On the magical handling of primeval images by the Babylonians and Assyrians . Folia Orientalia, 123-135. Krakow 2007. Infectious diseases: cuneiform tradition and molecular biological evaluation. Studies on Ritual and Social History in the Ancient Near East / Studies on Ritual and Society in the Ancient Near East (133-145) . Walter de Gruyter & Co. (Supplements to the Journal for Old Testament Science 374). Berlin 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 82 , 1573.
  2. ↑ http://www.euromedi.org/attivita/dettaglioattivita.asp?idevento=1610
  3. ^ Publishing history on the website of Ugarit-Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Chamberlain, Thomas Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chamberlain, Thomas Richard Chev. (Full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen