Fritz Hommel was a German Orientalist

Oriental studies

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Hommel was born in Ansbach

Ansbach

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, Germany

Germany

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. He studied in Leipzig

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 and habilitated in 1877 in Munich, where he in 1885 became an extraordinary Professor for semitic languages

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As well as linguistic questions, he was also interested in the history of the Middle East

Middle East

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, and its connection with culture and intellectual life, for example in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

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Hommel died in Munich

Munich

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Works

• Die äthiopische Übersetzung des Physiologus (1877)
• Die Namen der Säugetiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern (1879)
• Zwei Jagdinschriften Asurbanipals (1879)
• Die semitischen Völker und Sprachen. Bd. 1 (1883)
• Die älteste arabische Baarlam-Version (1887)
• Abriß der Geschichte des alten Orients (1887)
• Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens (1885)
• Der babylonische Ursprung der ägyptischen Kultur (1892)
• Aufsätze und Abhandlungen arabistisch-semitologischen Inhalts Bd. I-III (1892-1901)
• Südarabische Chrestomathie (1893)
• Sumerische Lesestücke (1894)
• Geschichte des alten Morgenlandes (1904)
• Die altisraelische Überlieferung in inschriftlicher Beleuchtung (1896)
• Der Gestirndienst der alten Araber und die altisraelische Überlieferung (1900)
• Vier neue arabische Landschaftsnamen im Alten Testament (1901)