Ümit Serdaroğlu

Ümit Serdaroğlu (* 1932 in Istanbul ; † September 23, 2005 ibid) was a Turkish classical archaeologist and architect .

Life

Serdaroğlu studied at Ankara University , where he received his doctorate in Classical Archeology under Ekrem Akurgal in 1964 with a thesis on The Ionian Architecture of the Archaic Period . From 1964 to 1966 he was on a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Heidelberg University . He then studied architecture again in Ankara, which made the restoration of old buildings his second field of activity alongside archeology.

Since 1978 he has been Professor of Restoration at Ege Üniversitesi in İzmir , since 1983 Professor of Architectural History and Restoration at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul, he has also been at Çanakkale University since 1994 and at Maltepe Üniversitesi since 2000 active in Istanbul.

He participated in excavations and research in Ağın , Bayraklı , Bodrum , Daskyleion , Euromos , Kalaycık , Kyzikos , Phokaia and Pitane . He also carried out numerous restoration projects in Akdamar , Assos , Bodrum, Bursa , Çanakkale , Istanbul and İzmir . His most important research, however, was directed to the ancient city of Assos in the Troas , whose excavations he led since 1981. He is buried here too.

Fonts

• Aşağı Fırat Havzasında Araştırmalar, 1975 = Surveys in the lower Euphrates basin. Ankara 1977.
• Construction activity in Anatolia under Persian rule. In: Palace and Hut. Contributions to building and living in antiquity. Conference contributions to a symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1979 in Berlin. Zabern, Mainz 1982, pp. 347-356.
• with Reinhard Stupperich (Ed.): Excavations in Assos. 4 volumes. (= Asia Minor Studies. Vol. 2. 5. 10. 21). Habelt, Bonn 1990-96.
• with Johannes G. Deckers : The Hypogeum at Silivri-Kapı in Istanbul. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 36, 1993, pp. 140-163.
• with Johannes G. Deckers: The Hypogeum at Silivri-Kapı in Istanbul. In: Ernst Dassmann , Josef Engemann (Hrsg.): Akten des XII. International Congress for Christian Archeology, Bonn September 22-28, 1991. (= Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. Supplementary volume 20). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1995–1997, pp. 674–681.
• Assos (Behramkale). Istanbul 1995, ISBN 975-7538-76-0 Text on the Internet ; 3rd edition Istanbul 2005, ISBN 975-7538-75-2 .
• Lykia-Karia'da Roma Dönemi Tapınak Mimarlığı. Istanbul 2004, ISBN 975-6561-63-7 .

literature

• Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan: Ümit Serdaroğlu passed away. In: Ancient World. 37 (2006) issue 1, p. 6.