Felix Blocher

Felix Blocher (born March 20, 1956 in Basel ) is a Swiss archaeologist from the Near East .

Blocher graduated 1975 Matura at the Humanities College Basel . From 1975 to 1980 he studied Near Eastern Archeology, Egyptology and Classical Archeology at the University of Basel and graduated in 1979 with a licentiate . From 1980 to 1985 he studied Near Eastern Archeology, Assyriology and Classical Archeology at the University of Munich , where he also received his doctorate in 1985 . After a brief employment as a research assistant at the Institute for Assyriology and Hittism , he received a postdoctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation from 1986 to 1989 on the subject of unrolling seals on early Babylonian clay tablets .

He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Heidelberg until 1995 . After his habilitation, he was a university lecturer there. In 1998 he was deputy head of the excavations in Tall Mumbaqat under Dittmar Machule .

After a substitute for the professorship, he was appointed professor for Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 2001 .

Fonts (selection)

• The bronze head of Nineveh. Origin, history and meaning of an ancient Mesopotanian hairstyle. Licensed thesis , University of Basel, 1979
• Investigations into the motif of the naked woman in ancient Babylonian times. Profil-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-89019-185-1 (= dissertation , University of Munich, 1985).
• Unrolled seals on early Babylonian clay tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection. A catalog. Profil-Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-89019-310-2 .
• Unrolled seals on early Babylonian clay tablets in the British Museum. A catalog. Profil-Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-89019-311-0 .

Web links

• Felix Blocher on the website of the University of Halle-Wittenberg
• Felix Blocher on the website of the Collaborative Research Center 586 ("Difference + Integration")