Michael Heltzer

Background

Heltzer, Michael was born on May 1, 1928 in Tallinn, Estonia. Son of Leib Aryeh and Ida (Levin) Heltzer. arrived in Israel, 1972.

Education

Master of Arts, University Oriental, Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, State Hermitage, Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1955. Habilitation, Orientalistic Institute Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1969.

Doctor (honorary), University Tartu, Estonia, 1998.

Career

From lecturer to professor Pedagogical Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1958-1971. Associate professor University Haifa, Israel, 1972-1979, professor Israel, 1980-1996. Emeritus, since 1996.

Guest professor University Düsseldorf, Germany, 1982-1983, University Binghampton, New York, 1989-1990, University Tartu, Estonia, 1993, 2004, 06.

Achievements

• Michael Heltzer has been listed as a noteworthy Historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Rural Community in Ancient Ugarit
  • Goods, prices and the organization of trade in Ugarit : (marketing and transportation in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second [sic] half of the II Millennium B. C. E.)
  • The Internal Organization of the Kingdom of Ugarit: Royal service-system, taxes, royal economy, army and administration

• Other Work

  • Author: The Rural Community in Ancient Ugarit, 1976, Goods, Prices and Organization of Trade in Ugarit, 1978, The Internal Organization of Ugarit, 1982, Die Organization des Handwerks, 1992. (with M. Ohana) The Extra-Biblical Tradition of Hebrew Personal Names, 1978. (with Y. Avishur) Studies on the Royal Administration in Ancient Israel in the Light of Epigraphic Sources Jerusalem, 1996, (translation into English, 2000).

Interests

• Avocation: cooking.

Connections

Married Shoshana Feigenberg, January 18, 1958. Children: Ida, Aryeh, Rafael-Ben-Ziyyon.

Father:

Leib Aryeh Heltzer

Mother:

Ida (Levin) Heltzer

Spouse:

Shoshana Feigenberg

child:

Ida Heltzer

child:

Rafael-Ben-Ziyyon Heltzer

child:

Aryeh Heltzer