Andreas Schachner

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Andreas Schachner (* 1967 ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Life and academic career

After graduating from high school in 1986, Schachner studied Near Eastern Archeology , Assyriology and Oriental Studies in Cologne and Munich from 1987 to 1993 . From 1989 to 1990 he studied abroad at the Hacettepe Üniversitesi in Ankara . After receiving his doctorate in 1998, he was an assistant at the Institute for Near Eastern Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1999 to 2005 .

At the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Schachner has been a consultant for Near Eastern archeology and the prehistoric cultures of Anatolia since 2005 and, following Jürgen Seeher, director of the excavations in Boğazköy , the ancient Ḫattuša, since 2006 . This long-term research project won the Shanghai Archeology Award in the " Research " category in 2019 .

His main research interests are Middle East archeology, archeology of Central Asia , Anatolia, the Caucasus and the Indian subcontinent , Anatolian and Hittite studies , Achaemenid Persia and architectural history.

Fonts (selection)

  • From the round hut to the merchant's house. Cultural-historical studies on the development of prehistoric houses in central, eastern and south-eastern Anatolia (= BAR international series. Volume 807). Archaeopress, Oxford 1999, ISBN 1-84171-020-2 (also dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1998/1999).
    • Volume 1. Text.
    • Volume 2. Illustrations.
  • Images of a world empire. Art and cultural historical studies on the decorations of a gate from Balawat (Imgur-Enlil) from the time of Shalmaneser III, King of Assyria (= Subartu. Volume 20). Brepols, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52437-5 (also habilitation thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2005/2006).
  • Assyria's kings at one of the sources of the Tigris. Archaeological research in the Birkleyn cave system and the so-called Tigris tunnel (= Istanbul research. Volume 51). Wasmuth, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8030-1772-7 .
  • Hattusha. In search of the legendary empire of the Hittites . Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-406-60504-4 .
  • with Jürgen Seeher and Ayşe Baykal-Seeher : “Hattuşa'da 106 yıl”: Hitit Kazılarının Fotoğraflarla Öyküsü / “106 Years in Hattusha”: Photographs Tell the Story of the Excavations in the Hittite capital. Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul 2012, ISBN 978-975-08-2374-9 .
  • as editor with Jürgen Seeher: excavations and research in the western upper town of Ḫattuša I (= Boğazköy-Ḫattus̆a. Results of the excavations. Volume 24). De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-11-046739-9 .
  • as editor: innovation versus persistence. What makes the difference between the Hittite Empire and Anatolia in the 2nd millennium BC? Chr.? International workshop in honor of Jürgen Seeher, Istanbul, 23. – 24. May 2014 (= Byzas. Volume 23). Ege Yayınları, İstanbul 2017, ISBN 978-605-9680-39-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Double award-winning: Two DAI projects received the Shanghai Archeology Award 2019. German Archaeological Institute, November 13, 2019, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schachner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Near East
DATE OF BIRTH 1967