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Dr. Sylvia Hutter

Historical-Comparative Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-5624
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

E-Mail: shutter[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Curriculum Vitae

11.–14.2.2014Guest lecturer at the International Winter School “Power and Ideology in Antiquity” at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
since WT 2011/12Lecturer for Anatolian languages at the Department of Linguistics, Historical-Comparative Linguistics at the University of Cologne (Hittite, Cuneiform Luwian, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Introduction to the Anatolian Languages)
WT 2002/03–WT 2012/13Lecturer for Anatolian languages and languages of the Ancient Near East at the Department of Indo-European Studies and Celtic Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Hittite, cuneiform Luwian, hieroglyphic Luwian, Hurrian, Akkadian texts from Boğazköy) Lectureships at the Institute for Islamic Studies at the same university (history and cultures of pre-Islamic Iran)
2001Doctorate at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, dissertation title: “Aspects of ruler legitimation in the Hittite historiogrphic texts”
1990–1995Co-founder and board member of the “Grazer Morgenländische Gesellschaft”
1986–2004Tour guides for study trips and independent travel in countries of the Middle East and North Africa (Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco)
1981–1987Master's degree at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz and at the University of Vienna (Ancient History and Classical Studies, History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East, Old Testament, Indo-European Studies, Turkish) Title of Master's thesis: “Untersuchungen zur Geschichtsschreibung vor Herodot am Beispiel der Hethiter”