Kay Kohlmeyer

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Kay Michael Kohlmeyer (born March 18, 1950 in Braunschweig ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East . He has been a professor at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW) since 1994 .

Life

After graduating from high school Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig, he studied at the Free University of Berlin (FU) from 1968 to 1969 classical archeology and from 1969 to 1976 Middle Eastern archeology. After taking part in the excavations in Habuba Kabira (1970-1975) and Tell Bi'a (1980-1981) in Syria , he was in 1981 at the Free University with a dissertation on rock art of the Hittite Empire doctorate . After working at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin, for the German Orient Society and the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, he has been Professor of Geo- and Field Archeology at the HTW since 1994 . Kohlmeyer's research focus is the archeology of Syria and Anatolia . From 1996 he was involved in excavations at the Great Mosque, the Citadel and the Temple of the Weather God in Aleppo .

Fonts (selection)

  • Rock paintings from the Hittite Empire. In: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica. 15 (1983) pp. 7-154.
  • The temple of the weather god of Aleppo. (= Gerda Henkel lecture ). Rhema, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-930454-24-6 .
  • with Julia Gonnella , Wahid Khayata: The Citadel of Aleppo and the Temple of the Weather God: New Research and Discoveries. Rhema, Münster, 2005, ISBN 3-930454-44-0 .
  • The temple of the weather god of Aleppo. Building history and type, spatial references, inventory and pictorial equipment. In: Temple Building and Temple Cult: Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in the Levant (2nd-1st Mill.BCE). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06784-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kohlmeyer, Kay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlmeyer, Kay Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Near East
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig