Dietrich Berges

Dietrich Berges (born December 14, 1957 in Koblenz ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Between 1978 and 1984 Dietrich Berges studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Prehistory at the Universities of Gießen , Heidelberg and Freiburg . After the master’s examination in 1984, he received his doctorate in 1986. The subject of the dissertation was Hellenistic round altars from Asia Minor . For this he was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute , with which he was able to travel to the Mediterranean in 1986/87 . Then Berges was a scientific advisor at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome until 1992 . He was editor-in-chief and employee of the Carthage project headed by Friedrich Rakob (1931–2007) .

Between 1992 and 1994, Berges worked as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on his habilitation at the University of Hamburg and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), during which he opened up the seal finds from the Punic temple archive in Carthage and also taught in Hamburg. In 1995 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg and was appointed private lecturer .

From 1994 to 1999, Berges headed the Cappadocia project of the DAI and the University of Erlangen . He led the Tyana - Survey and worked in the priority program Historic basic research in ancient Asia Minor of the DFG. In 1997/98 he was a Rodney S. Young Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania , where he developed the Maxwell Sommerville Collection of Engraved Gems . Between 1999 and 2005, Berges carried out excavations with Numan Tuna in the archaic sanctuary of Emecik ( Knidos ). In 2004/05 he was again a visiting research scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Berges had received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation since 2006 and was dedicated to the research project Reception of Antiquities in the Age of Enlightenment and Restoration .

Berges runs a company for archaeological cultural trips in Hamburg.

Fonts

• Hellenistic round altars from Asia Minor , Wasmuth, Berlin 1986
• Round altars from Kos and Rhodes , Mann, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1691-1
• The German excavations in Carthage , von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-1674-7 (Carthage, Volume 2)
• with Johannes Nollé : Tyana. Archaeological-historical studies on southwestern Cappadocia , Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-2959-9 ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , volume 55)
• Antique seals and glass gems from the Maxwell Sommerville Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA , von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2888-5
• Knidos. Contributions to the history of the archaic city , von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-8053-3457-0
• Supreme beauty and simple grace. Classicist gems and cameos from the Maxwell Sommerville Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA , VML, Leidorf, Rahden 2011, ISBN 978-3-89646-048-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Berges in the catalog of the German National Library
• PD Dr. Dietrich Berges