Lutz Martin

Lutz Martin (born September 28, 1954 in Olbernhau ) is a German Middle Eastern archaeologist at the Middle Eastern Museum of the State Museums in Berlin .

After training as a geology specialist and several years of work in geological research and exploration in Freiberg , Martin studied Near Eastern Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1980 to 1985 . After graduating, Martin worked as a research assistant in the Ancient Orient department of the former Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology in Berlin. Here he was involved in the processing of the excavation finds from Uruk (Warka) in the Vorderasiatisches Museum and in the excavations of the institute in Karasura , Bulgaria and Tell Abu Hgaira , Syria , there most recently as local excavation director. In 1993 Martin received his doctorate at the Humboldt University with a thesis on the stone vessels from Uruk / Warka as a source of cultural and historical information .

Since 1994 Martin has been a research assistant at the Museum of the Near East, responsible for the Syria / Palestine collection and for the museum's archaeological field research. He was in charge of the museum's excavations at Tell Knedig from 1993 to 1998 and has been the project coordinator for the Tell Halaf restoration project since 2001 and project manager for the joint German-Syrian excavations at Tell Halaf since 2006 . He is currently the deputy director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum and since Markus Hilgert left its acting director until Barbara Helwing took over as director in spring 2019 .

Martin has been a corresponding member of the Turkish Institute for Classical Studies in Istanbul since 1998 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation since 2006 .

Works

• The stone vessels from Uruk as a source of cultural and historical information. (Dissertation) Berlin 1993.
• with Elke Lindemeyer : Uruk. Small finds III. (= Excavations in Uruk / Warka final reports Volume 9) Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1546-5 .
• with Nadja Cholidis : Cheer up! Courage up! and humor high! Tell Halaf and its excavator Max Freiherr von Oppenheim. Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2853-2 .
• with Evelyn Klengel-Brandt and Sabina Kulemann-Ossen: Tall Knedig. The results of the excavations of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin in northeast Syria from 1993 to 1998. (= Scientific publications of the German Orient Society, Volume 113), Saarwellingen 2005, ISBN 3-930843-97-8 .
• with Nadja Cholidis and F. Ismail: Tall Halaf wa al-manqib al-atari fun Opnhaimm. Dimašq, 2006.
• as editor with Nadja Cholidis: Tell Halaf. Monuments destroyed in the war and their restoration. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022935-6 .
• as editor with Nadja Cholidis: The saved gods from the palace of Tell Halaf. Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2449-7 .
• as editor with Dominik Bonatz : 100 years of field research in northeast Syria - a balance. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-10009-0 .
• as editor with Abd-el-Masih Hanna Baghdo, Mirko Novák and Winfried Orthmann: Tell Halaf. Preliminary reports on the first and second Syrian-German excavation campaign. Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06068-4 .
• as editor with Abd-el-Masih Hanna Baghdo, Mirko Novák and Winfried Orthmann: Tell Halaf. Preliminary report on the third to fifth Syrian-German excavation campaign. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06828-4 .

literature

• Martin, Lutz in: Who is who? The German Who's Who, XLV 2006/07. Lübeck 2006, 871.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lutz Martin in the catalog of the German National Library