George Hatke, PhD
George Hatke
T: +43-1-4277-43425



Hatke, G. (2021). South Arabia, the Arabs, and the East Africa Trade in Pre-Islamic Times. In South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity: “Out of Arabia” (pp. 1-65). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Hatke, G., & Ruzicka, R. (Eds.) (2021). South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity: “Out of Arabia”. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Hatke, G. (2020). Northeast Africa. In Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages (pp. 299-332). Arc Humanities Press.

Hatke, G. (2020). The Aksumites in South Arabia: An African Diaspora of Late Antiquity. In J. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, L. Reinfandt, & Y. Stouraitis (Eds.), Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E. (Vol. 39/13, pp. 291-326). Brill.

Hatke, G., & Ruzicka, R. (Eds.) (2019). Ancient South Arabia through History. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Hatke, G., & Ruzicka, R. (2019). Digitizing the Glaser Squeezes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. History and Database: 1st Phase. In Ancient South Arabia through History: Kingdoms, Tribes, and Traders


Hatke, G. (2018). Agrarian, Commercial and Pastoralist Dynamics in the Pre-Islamic Irano-Semitic Civilizational Area. In A. Salvatore, & R. T. (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam Wiley-Blackwell.



Forschungsinteressen:
• Die Geschichte des vorislamischen Jemen
• Die Geschichte Äthiopiens in der Antike und im Mittelalter
• Altsüdarabische und Altäthiopische Philologie
• Vergleichende Semitische Philologie

Lebenslauf:
• Geboren 1978 in Topeka, Vereinigte Staaten
• 1984-1997: Schule in State College, Pennsylvania und Schenectady, New York
• 1997-2001: Ausbildung an Hamilton College (Clinton, New York) und an der American
University in Cairo (1999-2000)
• 2001: Bachelor-Abschluss in Anthropologie von Hamilton College
Bachelorarbeit: Arabization in the Northern Sudan from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
• 2001-2002: Studium der arabischen Sprache an der American University in Cairo
• 2002-2003: Berufstätigkeit in Schenectady, New York
• 2003-2011: Graduate School Ausbildung am Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
• 2008-2011: Lecturer für die Arabische Sprache an Princeton University
• 2011: erhielt PhD in Near Eastern Studies an Princeton University
Dissertationsthema: Africans in Arabia Felix: Aksumite Relations with Ḥimyar in the Sixth Century CE
• 2011-2013: Gastwissenschaftler am Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
• 2013-laufend: Senior Lecturer am Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien

South Arabia, the Arabs, and the East Africa Trade in Pre-Islamic Times

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15 Jun 2019

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Power and Authority in Late Antique Himyar

George Hatke (Speaker)

9 Nov 2018

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Aksum in South Arabia ca. 518 CE

George Hatke (Speaker)

5 Aug 2018

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Kings, Marauders, and Settlers: Aksum in South Arabia ca. 170-270 CE

George Hatke (Speaker)

22 Jul 2018

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South Arabian Christianity:A Crossroads of Late Antique Cultures

George Hatke (Speaker)

12 Nov 2015

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Nubien im Mittelalter: Zwischen dem Kreuz und dem Halbmond

George Hatke (Speaker)

9 Nov 2015

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Department of Near Eastern Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 2C-O1-44

T: +43-1-4277-43425

george.hatke@univie.ac.at