Almut Hintze,FBA (born 7 June 1957) is an academic, philologist, linguist and scholar ofIndo-Iranian studies andZoroastrianism. Since 2010, she has been Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Born inWest Germany on 7 June 1957, Almut Hintze completed herundergraduate degree inclassics at theHeidelberg University in 1984. She then studied for aMaster of Philosophy degree at theUniversity of Oxford, which was awarded in 1986, before she completed her doctorate (Dr phil.) inIndo-Iranian studies at theUniversity of Erlangen in 1990. TheFree University of Berlin awarded herhabilitation (Dr hab.) in 1997 for a study of the semantics of "reward" inAvestan andVedicSanskrit literature. She spent three years as the Heisenberg Junior Research Professor at theUniversity of Cambridge until 2000, and simultaneously as a Research Fellow atClare Hall, Cambridge (where she remained for another year). In 2001, she joined theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) 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.^[1][2]

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".^[3]

In 2015, Hintze was elected aFellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom'snational academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[3]

Hintze is married toEugenio Biagini, a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University.^[1] The couple have a son.

• — (2013).Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition (Speech). An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 22 February 2012.School of Oriental and African Studies:SOAS.
• with Kotwal, Firoze M. (2008).The Khorda Avesta and Yašt Codex E1 (Facsimile ed.).Harrassowitz.
• — (2007).A Zoroastrian Liturgy: The Worship in Seven Chapters (Yasna 35–41).Harrassowitz.
• — (2000).LOHN im Indoiranischen: Eine semantische Studie des Rigveda und Avesta [LOHN in the Indo-Iranian: A semantic study of theRigveda andAvesta] (in German). Wiesbaden:Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag [de].
• — (1994).Zamyād Yašt: Text, Translation, Glossary. Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag.ISBN 9783882267853.
• — (1994).Der Zamyād-Yašt: Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar [TheZamyād-Yašt: Edition, translation, commentary] (in German). Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag.
• — (1993).A lexicon to the Cyprian syllabic inscriptions. Hamburg: Helmut Buske.

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