Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gernot Wilhelm
Expertise and Research Interests
History and culture of the ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC; Hurrian and Urartian languages; Peripheral Akkadian (especially texts from Nuzi); Hittite history and (Hurrian-)Hittite religion.
Curriculum Vitae
*28.1.1945 | |
Education | |
6.2.1975 | Habilitation for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Saarbrücken |
1969 | Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin |
1964-1969 | Student of Assyriology, Hittitology and Near Eastern Archaeology Ancient Near Eastern in Berlin and Münster; main academical teachers: E. von Schuler, W. von Soden, F. Köcher, A. Moortgat, B. Hrouda |
Teaching experience | |
1996 (March-April) | Lectures at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris |
1988-2010 | Full Professor for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Würzburg |
1987 | Call for the position of an associate professor for Hittitology at the University of Munich (not accepted) |
1981-1988 | Associate Professor at the University of Hamburg |
1974-1982 | Lecturer for Hurrian, Urartian, Elamite and Hattian at the University of Heidelberg |
1970-1981 | Assistent and Assistent Professor at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of the Sarre, Saarbrücken |
1970 | Assistent at the Institute for History of Medicine, Free University of Berlin, participation in the project "Babylonian-Assyrian Medicine" (director: F. Köcher). |
Honors |
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2013 | Röntgen Medal of Würzburg University |
Since 2013 | President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur), Mainz |
2008 | Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Chicago |
2008 | Honorary member of the American Oriental Society |
2008 | Honorary member of the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft) |
2006-2013 | Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur), Mainz |
2000 | Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. |
since 2000 | Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut). |
1994-2000 | President of the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft e.V. Berlin, D.O.G.). |
1964-1969 | Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. |
University administration | |
2003-2007 | Member of the central budget committee of Würzburg University. |
2003-2004 | Chairman of the Center for Ancient Studies of Würzburg University. |
2001-1002, 2002-2004 | Prodekan of the Philosophical Faculty I of Würzburg University. |
2000-2002 | Dekan of the Philosophical Faculty I of Würzburg University, Member of the University Senate. |
1998-2000 | Prodekan of the Philosophical Faculty I of Würzburg University. |
1990-1992 | Member of the Würzburg University Senate. |
Other academic administration | |
2007-2008 | Member of a committee for the evaluation of universities of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
2004-2008 | Elected Member of the experts committee "Ancient Civilizations" of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) |
2001- | Chairman of the Committee for the Ancient Near East in the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz |
1998-2000 | Member of a committee of the (National) “Scientific Council” (Wissenschaftsrat) for the evaluation of universities of the State of Berlin. |
1988-2000 | Elected Assessor for Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). |
1992-1998 | Chairman of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) assessors' committee for Oriental Civilizations. |
Archaeological fieldwork | |
2001-2011 | Field epigraphist of the excavations at Boğazköy, Turkey (directors: Jürgen Seeher, Andreas Schachner) |
1995-2005 | Field epigraphist of the excavations at Kuşaklı, Turkey (director: Andreas Müller-Karpe) |
1984-1986 | Co-Director of a joint German-Italian Excavation in the Eski Mosul Dam area, Iraq, together with M. Fales (Venice), S. Tusa (Palermo) and C. Zaccagnini (Bologna). |
1972 | Participation in the excavations at Kamid el-Loz, Lebanon (director: Rolf Hachmann). |
Editor and advisor | |
2014- | Member of the scientific and editorial board of Eothen, Collana di studi sulle civiltà dell'Oriente antico, Florence |
2014- | Academic advisor at the Hittite Civilisation's Research Centre of the Hitit Üniversitesi Çorum at Boğazkale, Turkey |
2012- | Member of the Comitato scientifico of the journal Studi micenei ed-Egeo-Anatolici, Rome |
2011- | Member of the Consiglio direttivo of the journal La parola del passato |
2003-2009 | Co-Editor of "Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge" |
2001- | Editor of "Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten" on behalf of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz |
2001- | Editor of "Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi" on behalf of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz |
2000- | Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Akkadica. Périodique bimestriel de la Fondation Georges Dossin, Brussels. |
1997-2004 | Editor of "Texte der Hethiter". |
1997- | Member of the Advisory board of the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, Malibu, Cal. |
1996- | Member of the Comité scientifique of the series "Amurru", Paris. |
1995-2009 | Co-Editor of "Studies on the Culture and Civilization of Nuzi and the Hurrians" |
1994-2005 | Member of the Editorial Board of "Zeitschrift für Assyriologie" |
1988- | Member of the Editorial Board of "Reallexikon für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete" |
1984- | Co-Editor of the "Corpus der hurritischen Sprachdenkmäler" (Altorientalisches Seminar, FU Berlin, and Istituto per gli studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici, Rome) |
Ongoing projects | |
2001- | Director of the long-term project "Hittite studies" (Edition of cuneiform tablets from the Hittite capital Hattusa), and “Hethitologie Portal Mainz” (http:// www.hethiter.net). |
