Jens Kroeger

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Jens Kröger (born April 21, 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a German art historian specializing in the field of Islamic art .

Growing up in Cairo and Tehran , Kröger studied art history and classical archeology in Hamburg after graduating from high school in 1964 and went to Berlin in 1966 , where he studied art history, Islamic studies and Near Eastern archeology . In 1978 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Sassanid stucco . From 1985 to 2007 he was curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin .

literature

  • Annette Hagedorn, Avinoam Shalem (Ed.): Facts and Artefacts. Art in the Islamic World. Festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday. Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15782-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Kroger, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg