Volkert Haas

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Volkert Haas (born November 1, 1936 in Rosenheim ; † May 13, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German ancient orientalist .

Life

Volkert Haas studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Near Eastern Archeology at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Marburg from 1963 to 1968 . In December 1968 he was at the FU with the work Der Kult von Nerik. A contribution to the Hittite religious history for ancient oriental studies . From 1969 to 1970 he was assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin, where he was commissioned to work on the Babylonian - Assyrian medical texts under the direction of Franz Köcher . From 1970 to 1973 the research project "The hurricane archive ”at the ancient oriental seminar of the FU, where he then worked as an assistant from 1973 to 1977. At the hurricane archive he worked together with Einar von Schuler , Mirjo Salvini , Gernot Wilhelm and his future wife Ilse Wegner . The corpus of Hurrian language monuments emerged from this research project , on which publications appeared between 1984 and 2005. In 1977 Haas completed his habilitation in ancient oriental philology. After an assistant professorship at the Free University from 1977 to 1981, Haas was appointed to the professorship for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Konstanz in November 1981 . In 1989 he was appointed to one of the two chairs for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught until his retirement in 2001. A commemorative publication was dedicated to him on retirement .

As a university lecturer, Volkert Haas taught generations of students the ancient oriental languages Assyrian , Akkadian , Hittite and Hurrian . His students included Daliah Bawanypeck , Birgit Christiansen, Jürgen Glocker, Christian Girbal , Susanne Görke, Jörg Klinger , Steven Lundström, Julia Orlamünde , Doris Prechel , R. Strauss, Th. Richter, Silvia Alaura, L. dʼAlfonso, Amir Gilan, Joost Hazenbos , G. Torri and Marie-Claude Trémouille . Central research topics were the language, literature and religious history of the Hurrites and Hittites . Haas was considered one of the most renowned specialists in the field of Hittology . In addition to the projects mentioned, Haas also researched ancient oriental religions, Hittite healing methods and worked on a history of Hittite literature.

Volkert Haas was editor of the journal Altorientalische Forschungen (AoF). Haas lived in Berlin.

Fonts

  • as editor: Corpus of the Hurrian language monuments. Several volumes, Bonsignori, Rome 1963 ff.
  • Hurricane Studies. Neukirchener Verlag, Kevelaer o. J.
  • Hittite mountain gods and Hurrian stone demons. Rites, cults and myths. An introduction to the ancient Asia Minor religious ideas (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 10). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0542-7 .
  • Magic and Myths in Babylonia. About demons, witches and conjuring priests (= Merlin's library of the secret sciences and magical arts. Volume 8). Merlin, Gifkendorf 1986, ISBN 3-87536-133-4 .
  • as editor: The Empire of Urartu. An ancient oriental state in the 1st millennium BC Chr. (= Konstanz Ancient Oriental Symposia. Volume 1. / Xenia . Volume 17). Universitäts-Verlag, Konstanz 1986, ISBN 3-87940-274-4 .
  • as editor: Hurriter und Hurritisch (= Konstanzer Altorientalische Symposien. Volume 2. / Xenia . Volume 21). Universitäts-Verlag, Konstanz 1988, ISBN 3-87940-324-4 .
  • History of the Hittite religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Volume 1, 15). Brill, Leiden 1994, ISBN 90-04-09799-6 .
  • The Hittite literature. Texts, style, motifs. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018877-6 .

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SURNAME Haas, Volkert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2019
Place of death Berlin