Ferdinand Hennerbichler

Ferdinand Hennerbichler (born 1946) is an Austrian historian, philologist, anthropologist, and a prominent Kurdologist. He is also a former diplomat and journalist. He obtained Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics in 1972. He is also one of the founders of the Austrian Association for Kurdish Studies/ European Center for Kurdish Studies. Between 2012 - 2020 he taught Kurdology at the University of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. His latest book titled The Origin of the Kurds: First Interdisciplinary Study "Die Herkunft der Kurden: interdisziplinäre Studie" is regarded as one of the thorough and well-founded studies about the Kurdish people and has been incorporated into the teaching program of the historical-anthropological studies by The Institute for Historical Anthropology in Vienna.

Armenian studies Hennerbichler has contributed to the studies on the Armenian genocide and together with Maria Anna Six-Hohenbalken and Thomas Schmidinger have published a book in German on the Armenian and Kurdish genocides in Turkey titled "100 Jahre Volkermord an Armenierinnen Und Die Kurdinnen."

Diplomatic and humanitarian missions From 1980 to 1983 he served as the Middle East Assistant of Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. In 1981/82, 1983, 1984 he led delegations of International Rescue Operation to Iraq and managed to free eleven hostages of seven European countries following several rounds of negotiations with the Iraqi government. 2004 Die Kurden (History of the Kurdish People). Mosonmagyaróvár: A&H Bt. / Edition FHE, 2004, pp. 701, (out of print). 2010 Die Herkunft der Kurden. Interdisziplinäre Studie. Reihe: Historisch-anthropologi-sche Studien. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Historische Anthropologie in Wien. Hrsg. von Hubert-Christian Ehalt. Band 23.Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brüssel, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2010 Origin of the Kurds. Vienna Lecture, 2010, excerpts. In: Proceedings of the Russian Academy of DNA Genealogy, vol. 3, no. 12 (December), 2010, 2220-2244; Foreword by Anatole A. Klyosov. 2011 The Origin of the Kurds. Lecture. – Borsdorf: Edition winterwork, 2011. 2011 Arie Lova Eliav and Bruno Kreisky's Middle East peace negotiations Israel-PLO (in German). In: Maimann, Helene: Über Kreisky. Gespräche aus Distanz und Nähe. Wien: Falter Verlag, 2011, 136-141. 2013 Assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930-1989). New Assessment. In: Vienna Kurdish Studies Yearbook, ed. by F. Hennerbichler, Th. Schmidinger, M. Six-Hohenbalken, Chr. Osztovics, vol. 1/2013, Vienna: Wiener Verlag, pp. 288–321. 2013 The Future of the Kurdish Question in the Middle East. Lecture. II. International Tunceli (Dersim) Symposium, 20–22 September 2013, University of Tunceli (Dersim), Turkey.