Hartmut Kuehne

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Hartmut Kühne at the opening of the special exhibition "Syria between Destruction and Preservation - The Tell Schech Hamad Excavation" on June 24, 2017 at the Free University of Berlin

Hartmut Kühne (born July 21, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Life

Kühne attended high school in Bochum and Berlin and completed a stay at a high school in the USA in 1960/61. In 1963 he received his Abitur in Berlin and then studied until 1972 at the Free University of Berlin the subjects of Near Eastern Antiquities , Ancient Near Eastern Studies , Classical Archeology of Asia Minor , Iranian Studies and Ancient History . 1972 doctorate Kuehne to Dr. phil. with a dissertation on " The ceramics of Tell Chuera and their relationship to finds from Syria-Palestine, Turkey and Iraq ".

Kühne was then involved from 1972 to 1975 as a research assistant at Saarland University in the Tell Kāmid el-Lōz excavation under the direction of Rolf Hachmann . From 1975 to 1980 he was a research assistant for the creation of the " Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East " (TAVO) with Wolfgang Röllig . Since 1980 Hartmut Kühne has been Professor of Near Eastern Antiquities at the Free University of Berlin, where he was Vice Dean from 1999 to 2001 and Dean of the Department of History and Cultural Studies from 2001 to 2003 . In 2010 he retired and has been a visiting professor at the institute since then.

Bold's research interests include settlement archeology , historical geography , historical environmental research, monument studies and visual art, glyptics and research on ceramics and glass. In 1998 Kühne was awarded the Syrian Order of Merit, 1st class, for his achievements.

Projects

Own projects

  • 1975/77 Archaeological site inspection of the Lower Chabur ( Lower Habur Archaeological Project )
  • 1978 Archaeological site visit in the İncesu Valley in Turkey (near the small town of Kazankaya, Ortaköy district )
  • 1988 Archaeological site inspection in Tur Abdin , Turkey
  • since 1978 excavation of Tell Schech Hamad / Dur Katlimmu
  • 1983–1993 Interdisciplinary project for the “ Reconstruction of the environment in the late Holocene in the area of ​​the Lower Habur ”
  • 1985–1992 excavation at Tell Bderi
  • 1992-1996 Syrian -English cooperation project: establishment of the permanent collection of the Museum of Deir ez-Zor in Syria
  • since 2000 in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute : emergency excavation in the late Roman - Byzantine Tell Dgherat -South in the Habur reservoir area under the direction of Andreas Oettel

Participation in projects of other researchers

Since 2003 archaeological site inspection of the Çivril plain under the direction of Esref Abay

Publications (selection)

  • Editor: Reports of the Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad excavation, Dūr-Katlimmu . Reimer, Berlin (since 1991)
  • The cylinder seal in Syria. On the art of stone carving in Syria between 3300 and 330 BC. An exhibition by the Syrian Antiquities Administration and the National Museum Damascus in cooperation with the Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart . Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1980.
  • with Beate Salje : Kāmid el-Lōz. Part 15: The Glyptic . Habelt, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7749-2766-9 .
  • Editor with Karin Bartl , Reinhard Bernbeck : Fluchtpunkt Uruk. Archaeological unit from methodological diversity. Writings for Hans Jörg Nissen. Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 1999, ISBN 3-89646-386-1

literature

  • Dominik Bonatz , Rainer Maria Czichon , F. Janoscha Kreppner (eds.): Sites. Collected writings on the archeology and history of the ancient Near East. Ad honorem Hartmut Kühne. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05770-7 (Festschrift for the 65th birthday, pp. XIII – XIX list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Kühne, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin