From 1982 to 1988, Walther Sallaberger studied languages and cultures of the
ancient Near East as well as
classical archeology at the
University of Innsbruck. He learned Hittite, Old Persian, Turkish and
Hebrew in addition to the common languages of the disciplines. From 1982 to 1989, he took part in prehistoric excavations in Austria, in Eski
Mosul and
Borsippa in Iraq, in
Velia in Italy and in
Pergamon in Turkey. Sallaberger has been a professor of assyriology at
LMU Munich since September 1999. From 2005 to 2007, he was director of the Department of Cultural Studies and Classical Studies at LMU Munich, from 2007 to 2009 Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. Guest lectureships have taken him to the
University of Bern (1992/93),
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2001), the
University of Oxford (2002), the
Venice International University (2004) and the
University of Verona (2007). In 2012, the
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities chose him as a full member. == Some works ==