Power eld Mellink

Machteld Johanna Mellink (* 1917 in Amsterdam ; † February 24, 2006 in Haverford ) was a Dutch-American archaeologist from the Near East .

Machteld Mellink studied at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and during the Second World War as a doctoral candidate at the University of Utrecht . During the German occupation she was active in the Dutch resistance. In 1946 she went to Bryn Mawr College in the United States, where she taught from 1949 until her retirement in 1988, since 1972 she has held the Leslie Clark Chair .

She was initially interested in the relationships between the early cultures of the Middle East and Greece. From 1947 to 1949 she participated in the excavations in Tarsos led by Hetty Goldman , and from 1950 to 1965 in the excavations in Gordion . Since 1963 she has devoted herself particularly to the Elmalı plain . Here she discovered the important Early Bronze Age settlement of Karataş-Semayük and directed the excavations of the Kızıbel and Karaburun hills . In addition, she dealt intensively with the exploration of Troy . Her studies of ancient Anatolian chronology were also important. From 1980 to 1984 she was President of the Archaeological Institute of America , and from 1988 to 1991 of the American Research Institute in Turkey.

Mellink has received many awards. She received honorary doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania and Eskişehir University . The Archaeological Institute of America awarded her the Gold Medal in 1991 and the University of Pennsylvania Museum the Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal for Archaeological Achievement in 1994 . The Archaeological Institute of America also honored her with a Machteld Mellink Lecture in Near Eastern Archeology . As early as 1975, Bryn Mawr College presented her with the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching . She had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1972 and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , the Austrian Archaeological Institute , the Turkish Historical Society and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 1974 she was accepted into the American Philosophical Society .

Publications

• Publications de l'Institut Historique et Archéologique Néerlandais de Stamboul (ed. Of the series with AA Kampman), Istanbul.
• Collaboration on volumes 13 and 14 of the Propylaen art history , Propylaen-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974 and 1985.
• Troy and the Trojan War , 1986.

Web links

• Literature by and about Machteld Mellink in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the website of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archeology of Bryn Mawr College (Engl.)
• Machteld J. Mellink and the timeline of Anatolian archeology (engl.)
• Obituary at about: archeology (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: Machteld J. Mellink. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 8, 2019 .