Friedrich Karl Dörner

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Friedrich Karl Dörner

Friedrich Karl Dörner (born February 28, 1911 in Gelsenkirchen ; † March 10, 1992 in Nuremberg ) was a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

Life

He was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1911 as the son of the mine official Karl Dörner and his wife Klara. There he attended elementary school and high school. From 1930 he studied classical studies in Münster and Greifswald with Josef Keil , where he also received his doctorate in 1935. Immediately afterwards he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute for 1936/37. From 1938 to 1940 he worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul as a scientific consultant. During this time he was involved in excavations in Boğazkale / Hattuša in Turkey , but also visited Bithynia and that for the first timeAsia Minor Kingdom of Commagene , which from then on was his main research area. In 1940, Keil brought him to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna as a scientific assistant to the Asia Minor Commission .

After an interruption due to being called up for military service and an injury in East Prussia, he was a lecturer in ancient history and epigraphy at the University of Tübingen from 1945 to 1950 . In 1950 he completed his habilitation in ancient history at the University of Münster and continued his research in Kommagene. He was the head of the German excavations, and it is mainly thanks to him that the residence city of Arsameia on Nymphaios and the Hierothesion with the large inscription of Antiochus I was discovered . At Nemrut Dağı , he was also involved as co-director of the American excavations under Theresa Goell and led the restoration work. In 1968, he founded the Asia Minor research center in Münster , which aims to conduct archaeological research in Anatolia, and continued to work on excavations in Asia Minor. In 1967 he was able to prove a burial chamber in the hill of the Hierothesion at Karakuş through drilling . He retired in 1976, but continued to work in Asia Minor, where he mainly earned services to the preservation of the monuments on Nemrut Dağı. Friedrich Karl Dörner was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Austrian Archaeological Institute as well as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He published numerous books and specialist articles and also appeared as an editor, also here mainly on the subject of Asia Minor and Commagene. Since 1938 he was married to the Germanist Eleonore Benary , with whom he also published several times.

Fonts (selection)

  • The decree of the governor of Asia Paullus Fabius Persicus. Dissertation Greifswald 1935
  • with Theresa Goell: Arsameia on Nymphaios. The excavations in the Hierothesion of Mithradates Kallinikos from 1953-1956 . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1963, ISBN 3-8030-1754-8 .
  • Editor: From the Bosporus to 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 .
  • The throne of the gods on Nemrud Dağ . 2nd edition, Gustav Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1987, ISBN 3-7857-0277-9 .
  • Editor with Eleonore Dörner : From Pergamon to Nemrud Dağ. The archaeological discoveries of Carl Humann . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-0998-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Asia Minor Research Center .
personal data
SURNAME Dörner, Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1992
Place of death Nuremberg