Anton Moortgat

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Anton Moortgat (born September 21, 1897 in Antwerp , † October 9, 1977 in Damme near Bruges) was a German archaeologist from the Middle East of Belgian origin.

life and work

After studying Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Ancient History in Ghent from 1916 to 1918, then in Münster and Berlin, Anton Moortgat received his doctorate in 1923 from Ferdinand Noack with the thesis The ancient gate building in its architectural history . He then worked as a research assistant at the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation in Berlin and since 1929 at the Department of Near Eastern Asia at the Berlin State Museums . In 1938 he was appointed curator and in 1941 professor and taught as an honorary professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1948 he became a full professor at the Free University of Berlin , succeeding Ernst Herzfeld , who held the office until his suspension and subsequent emigration in 1935, and Eckhard Unger , full professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University from 1937 to 1945 .

From 1955 to 1976 Anton Moortgat directed the excavations at Tell Fecherije , Tell Ailun and Tell Chuera in north-east Syria . In 1967 his representative presentation appeared, The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia , a standard work of Near Eastern archeology, which was also translated into Arabic and English. Moortgate's work fostered an understanding of the importance of the classical art of ancient Mesopotamia. His detailed investigations of the individual objects, groups of finds and art epochs describe the high intellectual and artistic cohesion of the ancient oriental world of the three millennia before Christian.

tomb

Moortgat is buried in the Friedenau cemetery in Berlin.

Fonts

  • The fine arts of the ancient Orient and the hill tribes , Berlin 1932
  • Near Eastern cylinder seals , Berlin 1940
  • The emergence of Sumerian high culture , Leipzig 1945
  • Tammuz. Belief in immortality in ancient oriental art , Berlin 1949
  • History of the Middle East up to Hellenism in antiquity , in Scharff / Moortgat: Egypt and Middle East in antiquity , Munich 1950,
  • The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia I. Sumer and Akkad. DuMont, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1393-4
  • The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia II. Babylon and Assyria. DuMont, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7701-1405-1 (first edition in one volume 1967)

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personal data
SURNAME Moortgat, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Middle East
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1977
Place of death Damme (Belgium)