Thomas Richter (ancient orientalist)

Thomas Richter (born 1965) is a German ancient orientalist and associate professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Richter studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Archeology and Semitic Studies in Heidelberg and Berlin from 1984 to 1992 . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg , while he was working on his dissertation on the local Panthea in southern and central Babylonia in the Old Babylonian period , which was accepted in Berlin in 1993. Since 1998 he has been employed at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he was initially a research assistant and then an academic adviserhas been. In 2007 he completed his habilitation there with preliminary work on a Hurrian name book.

Richter achieved international fame primarily through his work as an epigraphist of the excavations in Qatna and Tell Chuera .

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations on the local Panthea of ​​South and Central Babylonia in Old Babylonian times , (= Old Orient and Old Testament 259) Münster 1999.
• The archive of Idadda (= Qatna studies 3), Wiesbaden 2012
• Bibliographical glossary of Hurricane , Wiesbaden 2013