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Fritz Hommel

[Deutsch] Fritz Hommel (geb. 1854 in Ansbach; gest. 1936 in München) war ein deutscher Orientalist.
Von 1885 bis 1925 war Hommel Professor für semitische Sprachen in München. Sein Hauptwerk war der „Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des Alten Orients“ (1904), das 1926 von Iwan von Müller und Walter F. Otto unter dem Titel „Ethnologie und Geographie des Alten Orients“ erneut heraus gegeben wurde.
Fritz Hommels Sohn war der klassische Philologe Hildebrecht Hommel (1899–1996).

[English] Fritz Hommel (b. 1854 in Ansbach, d. in 1936 in Munich) was a German orientalist.
From 1885 to 1925 he was professor of Semitic languages in Munich. His main work was the “Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des Alten Orients” ("Sketch of the geography and history of the Ancient Near East") (1904), in 1926 re-issued under the title "Ethnologie und Geographie des Alten Orients" by Iwan von Müller and Walter F. Otto.
Fritz Hommel's son was the classical philologist Hildebrecht Hommel (1899–1996).

Literature:

  • Bleibtreu, Erika; Boese, Johannes & Hrouda, Barthel: Orientalistenleben. Kurzbiografien von E.F. Weidner, B. Meissner, E. Unger und F. Hommel, in: Alter Orient aktuell 8 (2007), p. 26f.

  • Oberheid, Robert, Emil O. Forrer und die Anfänge der Hethitologie: eine wissenschaftshistorische Biografie; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2007, p. 378.

  • Weidner, Ernst, „Hommel, Fritz“, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 9 (1972); Duncker & Humblot, 2003, p. 591 f.

  • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische Gesellschaft, vol. 107; F. Steiner, 1957, p. 266.

  • Wikipedia Autoren, „Fritz Hommel“. in: Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie, 28. Mai 2011, 01:19 UTC. URL: < http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Hommel&oldid=89356312 >

  • Wikipedia contributors, “Fritz Hommel”, in: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 15 July 2011, 06:24 UTC, < http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Hommel&oldid=439573420 >

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German Orientalist (1854–1936)

Born 31 July 1854
Died 17 April 1936

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German Orientalist (1854–1936)

Born 31 July 1854
Died 17 April 1936

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Bible, Antiquities, Criticism, interpretation, Inscriptions, Jews, Personal Names, Religion, Ancient Geography, Civilization, Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian, Geography, Grammar, History, Ancient, Semitic, Semitic languages, Semitic philology, Arabic language, Assyriology, Astronomy, Bibliography, Classical antiquities, Classical geography, Cuneiform

Places

Arabian Peninsula, Asia, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Orient, Agadi (Agade, Anshan, Arabia, Assur, Assur (Ashur / Assyria), Babylon (Extinct city), Babylonia, Behistun (Bisotun / Bisutun / Behistan), Birs-Nimrud (Borsippa / Barsip / Til-Barsip), Canaan, Crete, Elam, Euphrates, Hadhramaut, Irak, Iraq, Israel

People

Fritz Hommel (1854-1936), Queen of Sheba, Abraham, Abîd ibn al-Abras, Antiochos I Soter (Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ / Antiochus the Savior), Aramaic (people), Ashera (goddess), Assur-nirari (Aschschur-nirari / Ashur-nirari), Assurbanipal (Ashshurbanipal / Ashurbanipal), Assurdan III (Assur-dan III / Aschschur-dan), Assurnasirpal (Ashurnasirpal), Assyrian (people), Babylonian (people), Canaanites, Chaldaean (people), Chammuragas (Chammuragasch / Khammuragas), Cyrus II of Persia (Cyrus the Elder / Kyros II / Kyros der Große), Gautama Buddha, Hadad (god), Hebrew (people), Herodot, Israelites (people), Moses, Nabopolassar (Nabu-apal-usur), Nebukadrezar II (Nebukadnezar II / Nabu-kudurri-usur II / Nebuchadnezzar II)

Time

To 953 B.C., To 622, antiquity

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  • F. Hommel
  • Fritz Hommell

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