Hermann Hunger

Hermann Hunger (born 1942), an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna from where he retired in 2007.[2] He has been recognized as a leading authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.[3][4]

Hermann Hunger
Born1942  (age 78)
OccupationAssyriologist and professor
Employer
Observation of Halley's Comet, recorded in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum.[1]

Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.[5]

Published
  • Mul.Apin, 1989 (with David Pingree). Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik), 1999 (with David Pingree).
  • Astronomical Diaries And Related Texts From Babylonia, 2006.[6]

References
  1. Entry at the British Museum Collection Database.
  2. "Entry at Austrian Academy of Sciences". Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
  3. "Biographies of Modern Historians of Ancient Occidental Astral Sciences" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine by Gary D. Thompson (retrieved April 27, 2015)
  4. Salvo De Meis (2007). "An Astronomical Analysis of the Occultations Published by Hermann Hunger". Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Festschrift für Hermann Hunger zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern (2007). Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna. 97: 121–136. JSTOR 23861411.
  5. G. Kronk (1999). Cometography, vol.1. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-521-58504-0.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2010-09-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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