Dietrich Sürenhagen

Dietrich Sürenhagen (born May 12, 1945 in Flensburg ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Dietrich Sürenhagen received his doctorate in 1974 at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis investigations into ceramic production within the late-primeval settlement Ḥabūba Kabira-Süd in northern Syria . In 1991 he was appointed as the successor of Volkert Haas to the professorship for archeology of the ancient Mediterranean cultures and their relations to the Middle East-Egyptian world at the University of Konstanz . He taught here until his retirement in 2009. He was succeeded by Stefan R. Hauser . Sürenhagen deals with the cultures of Mesopotamia , the Hittites , but also worked, for example, on the corpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean seals . In the emergency excavations in Tall Ahmad al-Hattu in Iraq from 1978 to 1980 and the emergency excavation in Tall Mulla Matar in Syria in 1989 by the German Orient Society - both had become necessary due to dam projects - Sürenhagen was the head of the excavations. From 1993 to 2000 he led the excavations in Tell Djinderis ( Tel Genderis ; Gindaros ) in Syria .

Fonts

• Ceramic production in Ḥabūba Kabira-Süd. Studies on ceramic production within the late-primeval settlement Ḥabūba Kabira-Süd in northern Syria , Hessling, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7769-0190-X
• Studies on the relative chronology of Babylonia and adjacent areas from the end of the ʿUbaid period to the beginning of the Early Dynastic II period 1. Studies on the chronostratigraphy of the south Babylonian city ruins of Uruk and Ur , Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-927552-35-6 (Heidelberger Studies on the Ancient Orient, Volume 8)
• Editor with Paul Åström : Periplus. Festschrift for Hans-Günter Buchholz on his eightieth birthday on December 24, 1999 . Åström, Jonsered 2000, ISBN 91-7081-101-6
• "That should be sworn to you." Royal regulations for Hittite elites , Cultural Studies Research College of the University of Konstanz, Konstanz 2005 (Discussion contributions of the Cultural Studies Research College, SFB 485 Norm and Symbol. The Cultural Dimension of Social and Political Integration, University of Konstanz, number 55)