Friedhelm Hartenstein

Friedhelm Hartenstein was born in 1960. He studied Protestant theology, Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology. He received his doctorate in 1996 and completed his habilitation in 2001. From 2002 to 2010, he was Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History of Religions at the University of Hamburg. He subsequently became Professor of Old Testament at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.