Hermann Hunger

Hermann Hunger (born 1942), an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna from where he retired in 2007.[2] He has been recognized as a leading authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.[3]

Observation of Halley's Comet, recorded in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE, Babylon, Iraq. British Museum.[1]

Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.[4]

Published
  • 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.[5]

References
  1. Entry at the British Museum Collection Database.
  2. "Entry at Austrian Academy of Sciences". Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
  3. "Biographies of Modern Historians of Ancient Occidental Astral Sciences" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine by Gary D. Thompson (retrieved April 27, 2015)
  4. G. Kronk (1999). Cometography, vol.1. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-521-58504-0.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2010-09-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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