Arif Müfid Mansel

Arif Müfid Mansel (* 1905 in Constantinople , † January 18, 1975 in Istanbul) was a Turkish classical archaeologist .

Arif Müfid Mansel studied various ancient sciences , especially classical archeology , at the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate there on May 9, 1932 with the work The Floor Buildings of the Greeks and Romans as a student of Ferdinand Noack , which was published in the same year as Volume 1 of the Istanbul Research . After returning to Turkey, Mansel became the second director of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum . In 1936 he also became a lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Istanbul , where he was professor from 1944 until his retirement. He made a special contribution to Turkish archeology as an excavator and scientist as well as a science organizer. His name is mainly associated with the excavations in Perge and Side . Alongside Ekrem Akurgal , he is considered to be the founder of archeology in modern Turkey . Several of his works have also appeared in German. Among other things, he also worked on Little Pauly .

Fonts

• Istanbul Museum of Antiquities. Catalog of the lead sarcophagi , Istanbul 1932
• Floor building of the Greeks and Romans , de Gruyter, Berlin-Leipzig 1932, (Istanbul Research, Vol. 1)
• The ruins of Side , de Gruyter, Berlin 1963

literature

• Friedrich Karl Dörner (editor): From the Bosporus to the Ararat (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 7 = writings of the Hermann Bröckelschen Foundation. Volume 5). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0417-X , pp. 379-380.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arif Müfid Mansel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ünlü Türk Arkeologlar, Arif Müfid Mansel - Arkeoloji (Turkish)