Alexander Pruss
Alexander Pruß (* 1965 in Nuremberg ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .
Life
From 1984 to 1991 he studied Near Eastern Archeology (major) and Ancient Near Eastern Philology as well as Prehistory and Early History (minor subjects) at the University of Saarland . Topic of the master’s thesis: On the chronology of the Tli cemetery (supervisor Winfried Orthmann ). From 1991 to 1996 he completed a doctoral degree in Near Eastern Archeology in Saarbrücken , Tübingen and Halle an der Saale . Doctorate in Halle with a dissertation on the subject: The Amuq terracottas. Investigations on the terracotta figures of the 2nd and 1st millennium BC From the excavations of the Oriental Institute Chicago in the Amuq plain (supervisor Winfried Orthmann). He was a research assistant at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Halle- Wittenberg and Munich as part of DFG research projects on excavation projects in Halawa, Tell A, Tell Chuera and Tell Beydar (all in Syria). He was a lecturer for Near Eastern Archeology at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Bonn and Jena . After his habilitation in 2012 in the Middle East Archeology at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern , he represented the vacant professorship for Middle East Archeology at the LMU Munich in the summer semester 2013. From the summer semester 2015 he teaches as Professor for Middle East Archeology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (initially as a substitute).
His main research interests are chronology and periodization of Mesopotamia and Syria in the 3rd and 2nd millennia, ceramics of the 3rd millennium in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria, terracottas and clay sculptures in the ancient Orient and the development of wagon use in the ancient Orient.
Fonts (selection)
- with Jan-Waalke Meyer : The small finds of Tell A Halawa . Saarbrücken 1994, ISBN 3-925036-79-2 .
- The Amuq terracottas. Investigations on the terracotta figures of the 2nd and 1st millennium BC From the excavations of the Oriental Institute Chicago in the Amuq plain . Turnhout 2010, ISBN 978-2-503-53527-2 .
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| SURNAME | Pruss, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archaeologist from the Near East |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |