Almut Hintze#
| Membership Number: | 6781 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/almut-hintze |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0913-6137 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism, SOAS University of London
- 2008 Zartoshty Reader in Zoroastrianism, SOAS University of London
- 2005 Zartoshty Senior Lecturer in Zoroastrianism, SOAS University of London
- 2001 Zartoshty Lecturer in Zoroastrianism, SOAS University of London
- 1997 Heisenberg junior research professor of the German National Research Association, Bonn, and Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge
- 1996 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Prince¬ton, USA
- 1990 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, C1) in Indo-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
Fields of Scholarship
- Multimedia and virtual reality documentation of Avestan rituals
- Electronic corpora and manuscript analysis
- Ritual studies and theory
- Sustainable long-term and standards-based hosting and preservation of digital data
- Multimedia language documentation
- Minority cultures and religions and languages in Iran and India, especially Zoroastrianism
- Sasanian seals and Middle Persian epigraphy
- Historical and comparative philology and linguistics of ancient Indo-Iranian languages
Honours and Awards
- 2023 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (€2,499,999) for project “AVINDIA. Avestan Ritual in India”, 1 Oct. 2023–30 Sept. 2028.
- 2023 AHRC standard grant (£999,998) for project on “Beyond Discovery: Religion, economics and administration in Sasanian Iran through new clay bullae from Taxt-e Solayman”, 1 June 2023–31 May 2028.
- 2022 Recipient of a Festschrift: Alberto Cantera, Maria Macuch, Nicholas Sims-Williams (eds.), The Reward of the Righteous. Festschrift in Honour of Amut Hintze. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Iranica 30), xxxii + 573pp.
- 2021 Elected member of the Board of the Union Académique Internationale (Brussels)
- 2020 ERC Proof of Concept grant (€150,000) for The Multimedia Yasna International Image Interoperability Framework (MUYA-IIIF)
- 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Horizon 2020) for Dr Yousef Moradi (€183,455) to work on “Seals and Sealing Practices in Sasanian Iran: New Evidence from Taxt-e Solaymān”
- 2019 Elected British Academy representative to the Union Académique Internationale
- 2015 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (€2.5 million) for the project The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA)
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2011 President of the Societas Iranologica Europaea
- 2004 British Academy Research Readership
