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Jorrit Kelder

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Jorrit Kelder (Hoorn, 1980), is a Dutch archaeologist and ancient historian. He is a visiting professor in Greek Archaeology at Ghent University[1], a guest researcher and adviser at Leiden University,[2] and an associate member of the sub-faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.[3] Kelder is a member of the Board of Luwian Studies,[4] and serves as a member of the advisory committee of the Dutch Art and Heritage council, the Mondriaan Fonds.[5] He has been the recipient of various prestigious fellowships, including a fellowship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and a Guest Scholarship at the J. Paul Getty Museum.[6]


Kelder has published extensively on the Mycenaean world and its connections to contemporary civilizations, including Egypt and the Hittite Empire.[7][8]

His work on Mycenaean political structures, and especially his suggestion that the various Mycenaean palaces were subject to a single (traveling) “Great King”, has received significant scholarly attention [9] [10], though it has not found general acceptance [11].