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Stefan Mario Maul (born 24 December 1958 in Aachen) is a German Assyriologist and holder of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
Maul studied Assyriology, Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he received his doctorate as a student of Rykle Borger in 1987. From 1987 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant and until 1995 as an assistant at the FU Berlin, where he habilitated in 1993. Since 1995 he is Ordinarius for Assyriology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Since 2004 Maul has headed the research unit of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences "Edition of literary cuneiform texts from Assur".
He has also been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft since 1994, a corresponding member since 1995 and a member of the central management of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut since 2001. In 1997 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his research activities. In 1998 he became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, in 2003 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences [1] and in 2012 a member of the Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. [2]
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