Klaus Schippmann

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Klaus Schippmann (born October 30, 1924 in Kiel , † September 8, 2010 in Göttingen ) was a German archaeologist from the Near East .

Klaus Schippmann first studied law and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Hamburg and passed the first state examination in 1951. A legal clerkship followed by 1953 and stays abroad in France and England until 1955, in 1955 thanks to a scholarship in the USA. In 1956 he passed his assessor examination in Hamburg and in 1957 his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of "Legal protection in institutional relationships ". He then worked for two years as a personnel manager in the paper industry.

In 1959/1960 Schippmann traveled to Turkey and Iran for nine months to take up Armenian churches and rock shrines. In the following year he began a second degree in Near Eastern Archeology in Hamburg. 1969 habilitation Schippmann with the work "The Iranian fire temples" at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen , followed by 1972, a lectureship joined. In 1972 he became the first professor at the newly created chair for "Near Eastern Archeology with special attention to Iran" in Göttingen, which was initiated by Walther Hinz . In 1990 he retired.

Klaus Schippmann was an internationally respected expert on Iranian and Old South Arabian archeology and history, his book The Iranian Fire Sanctuaries is considered a standard work. From 1985 to 1990 he directed excavations in Ra's al-Khaimah , and from 1992 to 1994 in Bahrain .

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  • The Iranian fire sanctuaries (= attempts at religious history and preliminary work . Volume 31). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1971, ISBN 3-11001-879-9 .
  • Fundamentals of Parthian history (= Fundamentals. Volume 39). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-07064-X .
  • with Louis Vanden Berghe: Les reliefs rupestres d'Elymaïde (Irān) de l'epoque parthe (= Iranica antiqua. Supplément. Volume 3). Iranica antiqua, Gent 1985, ISBN 9-068-31068-2 .
  • Basics of the history of the Sasanian Empire. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-534-07826-8 .
  • as Ed .: Golf Archeology. Mesopotamia, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Oman (= International Archeology. Volume 6). Leidorf, Buch am Erlbach 1991, ISBN 3-924734-24-0 .
  • History of the Old South Arabian Empires. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-534-11623-2 (English translation: Ancient South Arabia. From the Queen of Sheba to the advent of Islam. Wiener, Princeton 2001, ISBN 1-55876-236-1 ).

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SURNAME Schippmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Near East
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2010
Place of death Goettingen