Holger Gzella#
| Membership Number: | 3954 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kaththeol.uni-muenchen.de/personenliste/professorinnen-und-professoren/gzella/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - present Leiden University: Full Professor (tenured) and holder of the Chair of Hebrew and Aramaic
- 2004 - 2005 Associate Professor ("Privatdozent"), University of Heidelberg
- 2003 - 2004 University of Erlangen: Invited Visiting Professor ("Lehrstuhlvertreter") of Near Eastern Languages
- 2002 - 2005 University of Heidelberg: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- 1999 - 2002 Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome: Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Semitic epigraphy
- Hebrew Bible
- Hebrew and Aramaic language and literature
- History of Semitic Studies
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- History and culture of Syria-Palestine
- Historical Linguistics
- Hellenistic and Roman Near East
- Semitic Philology
Honours and Awards
- 2010 - 2015 Member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 - 2005 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
