Anneli Aejmelaeus | |
Birth Date: | 18 September 1948 |
Birth Place: | Mikkeli, Finland |
Citizenship: | Finnish |
Alma Mater: | University of Helsinki |
Anneli Pirjo Marjukka Aejmelaeus (née Halonen, b.) (September 18, 1948 in Mikkeli)[1] [2] is professor emerita of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Culture and Literature in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, and is the vice-director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions".[3] Before this, she held from 1991 to 2009 the position of Professor of Old Testament and Septuagint Research in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Göttingen.[4] In addition, from 1993 to 2000, Aejmelaeus was the Director of the research institute "Septuaginta-Unternehmen" at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.