Johannes Boese (archaeologist)

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Johannes Erwin Theodor Boese (born July 18, 1939 in Berlin ; † December 26, 2012 there ) was a German archaeologist .

Life and accomplishments

Johannes Boese was the son of the doctor Alfred Boese in Berlin and his wife Christine Boese. He grew up in a family with five children. From his first marriage to Ingrid Boese-Lagergren there are two daughters; a daughter and a son from his second marriage to Friederike Bachmann.

Boese studied Classical and Near Eastern Archeology as well as Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Ancient History at the Free University of Berlin . In 1970 he completed his studies with a doctorate , the subject of the dissertation was ancient Mesopotamian consecration plates. A Sumerian type of monument from the 3rd millennium BC Chr. The work was republished in Reprint 2011th This was followed by paid teaching assignments there until 1971 . In 1971 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology at Saarland University , in 1973 research assistant, 1975 academic councilor and from 1979 academic senior councilor. Since 1975 he has been teaching here in the subject of Near Eastern Archeology, then also for Sumerian . From 1993 Boese also took up teaching positions at the University of Würzburg . Boese was also involved in the exhibition Early Phoenicians in Lebanon for the 20th anniversary of the German excavations in Tell Kāmid el-Lōz , Lebanon , as well as in the catalog for the exhibition.

Boese took part in various excavations in Germany, Turkey ( Ilıca , 1964), Lebanon (Tell Kāmid el-Lōz, 1970, 1972, 1973) and in Syria ( Tell Chuera , 1963, 1964; Mumbaqat , 1974, 1977; Shamseddin , 1975; Tawi , 1975). From 1984 to 1997 he led the excavations in Tell Sheikh Hassan , a settlement on the east bank of the Euphrates , which is considered to be one of the most important reference sites in the Middle Uruk period (3600-3300 BC). The Tell is on the edge of the Assad reservoir .

Publications

  • Ancient Mesopotamian consecration plates. A Sumerian type of monument from the 3rd millennium BC Chr. (= Studies on Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology. Volume 6.) De Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-002484-5 .
  • Editor with Rolf Hachmann : 20 years of German excavations in Kāmid el-Lōz. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0771-3 .
  • Excavations in Tell Sheikh Hassan I. Preliminary reports on the excavation campaigns 1984–1990 and 1992–1994 (= Writings on Near Eastern Archeology. Volume 5), Saarbrücken 1995.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Dr. Johannes Boese. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 30, 2012 ( tagesspiegel.de , accessed December 26, 2019).
  2. ^ Rolf Hachmann : Early Phoenicians in Lebanon. 20 years of German excavations in Kāmid el-Lōz. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0771-3 ; Editing: Johannes Boese, Rudolf Echt and Andrei Miron .
  3. ↑ Rudolf Echt; Anna Michaela Loew: From Saarland into the world and back: 50 years of research by the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology at Saarland University (1964–2014). S. 17. Michael Koch (Ed.): Archäologentage Otzenhausen. Volume 1, 2014. Nonnweiler 2015 ( academia.edu ).
  4. ↑ Vorderasiatisches Museum - DFG project Tell Sheikh Hassan. State Museums in Berlin, accessed December 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Boese, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boese, Johannes Erwin Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Near East
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2012
Place of death Berlin