Hittitologist, Managing Editor of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie
email: g.szabo@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
- Telephone:
- +49 89 2180 3348 (office)
- +49 89 2180 3913 (fax)
Curriculum vitae:
- Born 28 February 1937 in Nyiregyháza (Hungary).
- 1955: Bachelor: Budapest/Székesfehérvár (Hungary).
- 1956: Leav Hungary.
- 1968: PhD in Hittitology and Assyriology at the Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie, University of Munich, Germany.
Professional Career:
- 1966-1972: cooperation with A. Kammenhuber on J. Friedrich and A. Kammenhuber, Hittite Dictionary (2nd ed.)
- 1970-present: Instruction in Hittite language and literature at the Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie, University of Munich
- 1972: summer excavation of Hattusa/Boghazköy with D. Bittel
- 1972-present: Managing editor of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen
Archäologie. Project of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.: D. O. Edzard )
- 1989-1990: taught Hittite at UC Berkeley, Department of Near Eastern Studies
- 2001: taught Hittite at the University of Budapest
- Member of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
Publications:
Books
- Ein hethitisches Entsühnungsritual (=Texte der Hethiter 1, 1971).
- Co-editor, Festschrift Annelies Kammenhuber, Or 32 (1983).
Articles
- 1972-present: numerous contributions in the Reallexikon der Assyriologie.
- "Bemerkungen zu hethitischem lahhurnuzzi*," in I. Kärki, ed., Fs. A. Salonen (=StOr 46, 1975) 333-341.
- "Hittite Witchcraft, Magic, and Divination," in A. Sasson, ed., CANE III (1995) 2007-2019.
- Review of H. M. Kümmel, Ersatzrituale für den hethitischen König (=StBoT 3, 1967), in ZA 60 (1970) 223-226.
- Review of V. Haas, Der Kult von Nerik (=StPohl 4, 1970), in BiOr 30 (1973) 75-77.
- Review of G. Wilhelm, Untersuchungen zum Hurro-Akkadischen von Nuzi (=AOAT 9, 1970), in WO 7 (1973) 169-173.
- Review of J. Siegelová, Appu-Märchen und Hedammu-Mythos (=StBoT 14, 1971), in BiOr 31 (1974) 285.
- Review of G. A. Melikisvili, Die urartäische Sprache (=StPohl 7, 1971), in AfO 28 (1981/1982) 174-177.
- Nachruf A. Kammenhuber, in ZA 88 (1998) 161-163.
Version: 5 November 2003