Stefan Mario Maul (born 24 December 1958 in Aachen) is a German

Assyriologist Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...

and holder of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Life

Maul studied Assyriology,

Near Eastern Archaeology Near Eastern archaeology is a regional branch of the wider, global discipline of archaeology. It refers generally to the excavation and study of artifacts and material culture of the Near East from antiquity to the recent past. Definition The ...

and

Egyptology Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , ''-logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious p ...

at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he received his doctorate as a student of

Rykle Borger Riekele or Rykle Borger (born 24 May 1929, Wiuwert, the Netherlands; died 27 December 2010, Göttingen, Germany) was a notable Dutch Assyriologist educated in the German tradition. He was the protégé of Wolfram von Soden, and taught as professor ...

in 1987. From 1987 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant and until 1995 as an assistant at the

FU Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

, where he habilitated in 1993. Since 1995 he is Ordinarius for Assyriology at the

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

Since 2004 Maul has headed the research unit of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences "Edition of literary cuneiform texts from Assur". He has also been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft since 1994, a corresponding member since 1995 and a member of the central management of the

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

since 2001. In 1997 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his research activities. In 1998 he became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, in 2003 a corresponding member of the

Göttingen Academy of Sciences Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The or ...

and in 2012 a member of the Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.Stefan Mario Maul
on Leopoldina

Publications

* ''Zukunftsbewältigung: eine Untersuchung altorientalischen Denkens anhand der babylonisch-assyrischen Löserituale (Namburbi)'' at Zabern, Mainz 1994, . * ''Weinen aus Trauer. Der Tod des Enkidu.'' In Claus Ambos, Stephan Hotz, Gerald Schwedler, Stefan Weinfurter: ''Die Welt der Rituale. Von der Antike bis heute.'' Wiss. Buchges, Darmstadt 2005, , . * ''Die Inschriften von Tall Taban (Grabungskampagnen 1997–1999). Die Könige von Tabetu und das Land Mari in mittelassyrischer Zeit.'' Tokio, Kokushikan Univ., Inst. for Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq 2005. * ''Das Gilgamesch-Epos.'' newly translated and commented by Stefan M. Maul. 6th edition. Munich, Beck 2014, . * ''Die Wahrsagekunst im alten Orient''. Beck, Munich 2013, .

References

External links

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* ttp://www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de/akademie/mitglied.de.html?id=135 Stefan Maul on the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften website
Texts by Stefan Maul on Propylaeum-DOK
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