Hermann Hunger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hermann Hunger

Austrian Assyriologist

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1942

Place of Birth: Bautzen, Saxony, Germany

Profession: historian, university teacher, archaeologist, assyriologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hermann Hunger (born 1942), an Austrian Assyriologist, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Vienna from where he retired in 2007.
He has been recognized as a leading authority on Babylonian astronomy and celestial omens.Hunger translated a cuneiform tablet from the Babylonian astronomical diaries that describes the appearance of Halley's Comet in 163 BCE.