| 1 | Name: | Dr. Hermann Hunger | |
| Institution: | University of Vienna | ||
| Year Elected: | 1995 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 404c | ||
| Residency: | International | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1942 | ||
Hermann Hunger is a historian of astronomy who is also a first-rate Assyriologist. His editions of cuneiform texts cover the entire range of the corpus and culminate in the publication of his Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia series. This work stands as one of the most important publications of original sources for the study of Babylonian astronomy and became widely known through Dr. Hunger's communication of the earliest known record of Halley's Comet. Born in Germany, Dr. Hunger earned his Ph.D. from the University of Munster in 1966. He served as associate professor at the University of Chicago prior to joining the faculty at the University of Vienna in 1978. He currently holds the position of Professor of Assyriology at the Institut für Orientalistik and chairs the Commission for the History of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Medicine at the University of Vienna. | |||