Heinrich Lenzen

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Heinrich Jakob Lenzen (born September 20, 1900 in Homberg-Essenberg , † January 19, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German building researcher and Near Eastern archaeologist .

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Lenzen graduated from the Franz-Haniel-Gymnasium in Duisburg in 1919 with the Abitur . He then studied philosophy , German and art history at the Universities of Göttingen , Freiburg and Munich , as well as architecture and building history at the Technical Universities of Hanover and Berlin . He finished his studies in Berlin in 1927 as a graduate engineer . Lenzen initially found a job at the Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Trier , but was won over by Walter Andrae as an employee for the Near Eastern Department of the State Museums in Berlin in 1928 . As an archaeologist, he started working for the German Archaeological Institute in 1931 during the excavations in Uruk in Iraq , where he was temporarily head of the excavation.

In 1940 he was awarded the dissertation “The development of the Zikurrat from its beginnings to the time of the III. Dynasty of Ur "to Dr. ing. PhD . In 1945 he became a consultant for building history at the German Archaeological Institute. In 1948 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin with his contribution on " Parthian architecture in Mesopotamia and its bridging between the architecture of the West and the East". This was followed by his work at the Chair of Building History and Building Survey there. In 1955 he founded the Baghdad branch of the German Archaeological Institute, of which he was the founding director until the 1967/1968 winter campaign and of which he founded the specialist journal “Baghdader Mitteilungen”. His successor in this office was Jürgen Schmidt . After his retirement, Lenzen held a series of guest lectures at the University of Bern until 1972 .

In 1956 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Course catalog of the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg 1949/1950 (PDF; 12.2 MB) .

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personal data
SURNAME Lenzen, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenzen, Heinrich Jakob; Lenzen, Heinrich J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher and Near Eastern archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg-Essenberg
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1978
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau