Jan-Waalke Meyer

Jan-Waalke Meyer (born March 31, 1945 in Varel ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East and professor at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His research activities are particularly focused on Tell Chuera (Northern Syria), where he took over the excavation management from Winfried Orthmann in 1998.

After graduating from high school in Oldenburg (1968), Meyer first studied German language and literature and history in Hamburg until 1970 , but then moved to the University of Freiburg , where he initially studied art history and classical archeology for two semesters , but then continued in Freiburg with a degree in the Near East Archeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Classical Archeology began, which he completed in 1979 at the University of Saarbrücken . 1985 followed the doctorate in Near Eastern Archeology, 1993 the habilitation. In 1973/74 he worked on the excavation of the Mumbaqat under the direction of Winfried Orthmann and in 1977 under the direction of Alfred Werner Maurer . From 1979 to 1990 he worked on the project in Halawa under the direction of Winfried Orthmann. After a period of unemployment, which he used for his habilitation, he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Saarland and at the same time worked on the excavation project in Schech Hamad under Hartmut Kühne . Since summer semester 1996 he has been a full professor at Goethe University and has been involved in the excavations in Tell Chuera. With Hans-Markus von Kaenel , Rüdiger Krause and Wulf Raeck , he publishes the Frankfurt Archaeological Writings .

Meyer is married to the archaeozoologist Emmanuelle Vila-Meyer .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
• Font directory
• Literature by Jan-Waalke Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library