Anne-Maria Wittke

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Anne-Maria Wittke , pseudonym Maria Courant (born before 1975) is a German ancient historian , archaeologist and cartographer .

Between 1975 and 1982 Anne-Maria Wittke studied law , history with a focus on ancient history and German studies for state examinations as well as classical archeology and Egyptology at the University of Tübingen and the University of Stuttgart . From 1978 to 1992 she was in the fields of Ancient History ( Late Empire ) and classical archeology (early Iron Age Anatolia ) employee of the Tübingen Atlas of the Near East (TAVO). In 1992 she became a member of the project at the University of Tübingen for the conception and publication of the New Pauly . She was the first head of the project and was responsible for setting up the editorial team. She also developed the map program for all volumes in the area of ​​antiquity and was in charge of the early history department from the second volume onwards . Participation in this project ended with the last volume in 2002. In the same year he received his doctorate in Ancient History in Tübingen with the thesis Mušker and Phryger. A contribution to the history of Anatolia from the 12th to the 7th century BC Comment on the TAVO map B IV 8 “Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 700 BC. Chr. " . As early as 2000, Wittke became Scientific Coordinator of the Graduate School "Anatolia and its Neighbors" at the University of Tübingen. In 2004/2005 she worked for Uwe Finkbeiner on the international project Archeoseismology and Paleoseismology for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Archeological Sites in the Middle East (APAME), funded by the European Union . From 2005 to 2007 she edited the third supplementary volume of the New Pauly, Historical Atlas of the Ancient World , with Eckart Olshausen and Richard Szydlak . Since 2008 she has been working on the project Ancient Concepts for the Capture and Representation of Geographic Spaces , from 2012 to 2015 with Martin Bentz , Sophie Helas , Birgitta Eder , Martin Bartelheim and Herbert Niehr on the Project Early History of Mediterranean Cultures (12th-6th centuries BC) .) .

Fonts

  • with Friedhelm Prayon : Asia Minor from the 12th to the 6th century BC Chr. Mapping and explanation of archaeological findings and monuments. (= Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle Orient , Series B: Geisteswissenschaften, No. 82), Reichert, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-88226-819-0 .
  • Editor with Hartmut Blum , Peter Pfälzner and Betina Faist : Anatolia, the land of bridges? Causes, extent and modes of cultural exchange between Anatolia and its neighbors. Attempto, Tübingen, 2002, ISBN 3-89308-346-4 .
  • Mušker and Phrygians. A contribution to the history of Anatolia from the 12th to the 7th century BC Comment on the TAVO map B IV 8 “Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 700 BC. Chr. ” (= Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East , Series B: Geisteswissenschaften, No. 99), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-89500-385-9 .
  • Editor with Friedhelm Prayon and Mirko Novák : The external impact of the late Hittite cultural area. Exchange of goods - cultural contact - cultural transfer . Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2005 ( files of the research conference of the graduate college “Anatolia and its neighbors”. Volume 2; Old Orient and Old Testament- Volume 323) ISBN 3-934628-63-X
  • with Eckart Olshausen , Richard Szydlak : Historical Atlas of the Ancient World. (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplement 3) Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02031-4 .
    • English edition: Historical atlas of the ancient world. (= Brill's New Pauly. Supplements 3), Brill, Boston and Leiden 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-17156-5 .
  • Editor: Early History of Mediterranean Cultures. Historical-archaeological manual. (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplement 10) Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02470-1 (and seven other ISBNs).

Web links

  • Portrait on the website of the University of Tübingen