Almut Hintze


Almut Hintze, FBA is an academic, philologist, linguist and scholar of Indo-Iranian studies and Zoroastrianism. Since 2010, she has been Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Career

Born in West Germany on 7 June 1957, Almut Hintze completed her undergraduate degree in classics at the Heidelberg University in 1984. She then studied for a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford, which was awarded in 1986, before she completed her doctorate in Indo-Iranian studies at the University of Erlangen in 1990. The Free University of Berlin awarded her habilitation in 1997 for a study of the semantics of "reward" in Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit literature. She spent three years as the Heisenberg Junior Research Professor at the University of Cambridge until 2000, and simultaneously as a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2001, she joined the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London as the Zartoshty Lecturer. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005, then three years later to a readership. In 2010, she was appointed Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS.
According to her British Academy profile, Hintze's research focuses on "the languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism" and "Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics".

Honours and awards

In 2015, Hintze was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Personal life

Hintze is married to Eugenio Biagini, a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University. The couple have a son.

Selected publications

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