Beate Salje

Beate Salje (* 1948 in Lünen ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East . From 1998 to 2014 she was director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin .

Beate Salje studied after working as a librarian at the Free University of Berlin . During her studies, she participated in two large special exhibitions at the Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory in Berlin ( Syria, Land of Baal and Early Phoenicians in Lebanon ). In 1989 she received her doctorate with a thesis on The "common style" of the Mitanni glyptic and the glyptic of the Levant and Cyprus in the late Bronze Age . After completing her studies, she worked as a consultant in the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute . In this position she took part in the excavation of the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Uruk / Warka .

On February 1, 1998, Salje succeeded Evelyn Klengel-Brandt as director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum. During her tenure, the museum realized several large exhibitions, for example Agatha Christie and the Orient. Criminology and Archeology (2001), Assyrian Resurrecting . 100 years of the German excavation in Assyria (2003), Faces of the Orient. 10000 Years of Art and Culture from Jordan (2005), Babylon - Myth and Truth (2008), The Saved Gods from the Palace of Tell Halaf (2011) and Uruk - 5000 Years of Megacity (2013). She retired at the end of February 2014. The board of trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed the ancient orientalist Markus Hilgert as her successor .

The main focus of Beate Salje's research is glyptics . Here she uses this type of find to examine international relations in the Levant of the Late Bronze Age. She is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Fonts

• The "common style" of the Mitanni glyptics and the glyptics of the Levant and Cyprus in the late Bronze Age , Zabern, Mainz 1990. ( Baghdader Forschungen , Volume 11) ISBN 3-8053-1219-9
• with Rainer Michael Boehmer, Friedhelm Pedde: Uruk. Die Gräber , Zabern, Mainz 1995. (Excavations in Uruk-Warka, Volume 10) ISBN 3-8053-1590-2
• with Hartmut Kühne : Kamid el-Loz. Die Glyptik , Habelt, Bonn 1996. (Kamid el-Loz, Volume 15) ISBN 3-7749-2766-9
• (Ed.): Vorderasiatische Museen. Yesterday Today Tomorrow. Berlin, Paris, London, New York. A location determination , von Zabern, Mainz 2001 ISBN 3-8053-2778-1
• with Nadine Riedl, Günther Schauerte : 10,000 years of art and culture from Jordan. Faces of the Orient , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany / Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, Bonn / Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-8053-3454-0

literature

• Gerhard Zimmer : Dr. Beate Salje - The new director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin. In: EOS 2/1998, p. 29.
• Museums Journal 12, 1998, p. 96.
• Margarete van Ess : Farewell to Beate Salje. In: Museums-Journal , issue 2/2014, pp. 8–9.