Andreas Müller-Karpe

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Andreas Müller-Karpe (born November 4, 1957 in Munich ) is a German prehistoric and Near Eastern archaeologist .

Andreas Müller-Karpe is a son of the prehistorian Hermann Müller-Karpe . He studied Prehistory and Early History as well as Classical Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg , the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich . In 1984 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a dissertation on the subject of “Hittite pottery in the upper town of Hattuša. A contribution to the knowledge of ceramics and pottery companies from the late Great Empire, based on the excavation results from 1978-82 in Bogazköy ”. Several years followed as an assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at Kiel University . Here he completed his habilitation in 1991 with the thesis "Old Anatolian Metal Crafts". In 1995 he became professor for the archeology of West Asia at the University of Regensburg , and a year later in Marburg.

Müller-Karpe carried out several excavations in Germany, Turkey and Iraq. He traveled to the Sahara to take photos of rock art . In 1990 he discovered the Hittite town ruins near Ortaköy , which were later identified with Šapinuwa . Since 1992 he has been researching in Kuşaklı (Hittite Sarissa ) and Kayalıpınar ( Sivas Province ). Andreas Müller-Karpe is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Müller-Karpe's wife, the archaeologist Vuslat Müller-Karpe, died on August 7, 2020 and was buried at her request in the 3800-year-old former Hittite city of Kayalipinar.

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  • Hittite pottery in the upper town of Hattuša. A contribution to the knowledge of ceramics and pottery companies from the late Great Empire period, based on the excavation results from 1978-82 in Bogazköy . Hitzeroth, Marburg 1988 (Marburg studies on prehistory and early history, vol. 10)
  • Old Anatolian metal handicraft , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1994 (studies from the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the University of Kiel and the State Archaeological Museum of the Christian-Albrechts-University, Schleswig, as well as the State Office for Prehistory and Early History of Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig, NF, Vol. 75) ISBN 3-529-01175-4
  • Kuşaklı-Sarissa (ed.), Leidorf, Rahden 1997ff.
  • (Ed.): Studies on the archeology of the Celts, Romans and Teutons in Central and Western Europe. Dedicated to Alfred Haffner on the occasion of his 60th birthday . Leidorf, Rahden 1998 (International Archeology. Studia honoraria, Bd. 4) ISBN 3-89646-384-5
  • The Hittite Empire , in Walter Demel a . a .: WBG world history. A global story from the beginning to the 21st century. Darmstadt 2009. Volume 1. pp. 236-255

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  1. ↑ Hürriyet.de of August 11, 2020: At your own request. Turkey - Archaeologist Vuslat Müller-Karpe buried in Kayalipinar , accessed on August 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Karpe, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich