Hermann Hunger
Austrian Assyriologist

Hermann Hunger

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Austrian Assyriologist
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Austria
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1 January 1942(Bautzen, Bautzen (district), Saxony, Germany)
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Hermann Hunger (born 1942), an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna, until his retirement (2007). He has been recognized as a leading authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.

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

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  • 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.