Walther Sallaberger

Walther Sallaberger
Walther Sallaberger
Born	3 April 1963 editor
Employer	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ;

Walther Sallaberger (born 3 April 1963 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian

Assyriologist

.

From 1982 to 1988, Walther Sallaberger studied languages and cultures of the

classical archeology at the University of Innsbruck. He learned Hittite, Old Persian, Turkish and Hebrew in addition to the common languages of the disciplines. From 1982 to 1989 he took part in prehistoric excavations in Austria, in Eski Mosul and Borsippa in Iraq, in Velia in Italy and in Pergamon

in Turkey.

Sallaberger has been a professor of assyriology at the

University of Munich

since September 1999. From 2005 to 2007 he was director of the Department of Cultural Studies and Classical Studies at the University of Munich, from 2007 to 2009 Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies.

Guest lectureships have taken him to the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences chose him as a full member.^[1]