Mamoun Fansa

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Mamoun Fansa (born August 27, 1946 in Aleppo ) is a Syrian prehistorian and museum director who lives and works in Germany .

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Mamoun Fansa comes from an Aleppo merchant family who traditionally worked in soap production. In order not to have to take part in the war against Israel , Fansa left Syria in 1967 with forged papers for Germany. Therefore, he was banned from entering Syria for a long time . He studied at the School of Art and Design in Hanover first product design then, Pre- and Early History at the University of Hanover and the Georg-August University of Goettingen . In 1979 he was in Hanover with the work The ceramics of the Funnel Beaker culture from the Megalithic - and flat graves of Oldenburg space doctorate . After graduating, Fansa worked at the Institute for Monument Preservation in Hanover. From 1995 to 2011, Fansa was director of the State Museum for Nature and Humans in Oldenburg , where he had previously worked as head curator at the prehistoric department since 1987 . As director, he transformed the museum from a natural history museum into an interdisciplinary museum at the interface between natural science, cultural history and archeology. Fansa is honorary professor of history at the University of Oldenburg . From 2011 to 2016, Fansa was honorary chairman of the sponsoring association of the Berlin museum village Düppel .

Fansa initiated an extremely successful traveling exhibition on experimental archeology , which was shown in more than 30 European museums for over 14 years. At the museum in Oldenburg he was also responsible for other large exhibitions on Friedrich II and TE Lawrence . Fansa was also the initiator and founder of the European Association for the Promotion of Experimental Archeology and its chairman until 2008. He has been a member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2016 .

Fonts

  • The ceramics of the funnel cup culture from the megalithic and flat graves of the Oldenburg area (= Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history. 20). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-01520-2 .
  • with Martin Claus : Palithi. The ceramics of the younger Iron Age, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages from the Palatinate area of ​​Pöhlde (city of Herzberg am Harz, district of Osterode am Harz) (= material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony. 18). Lax, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-7848-1518-9 .
  • as editor: Experimental Archeology. Vol. 1991-2002, Isensee, Oldenburg (Oldenburg), ZDB -ID 1427637-9 .
  • Great stone graves between the Weser and Ems. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-118-5 (several editions).
  • as editor: Moor archeology in Northwest Europe. (Commemorative publication for Dr. h. C. Hajo Hayen). Reprint of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1993, ISBN 3-89442-141-X .
  • as editor: Experimental Archeology in Europe. Vol. 1 / 2002–, Isensee, Oldenburg (Oldenburg), ZDB -ID 2108386-1 .
  • as publisher: Ex oriente lux? Paths to Modern Science. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition [...] in the Augusteum Oldenburg. Oldenburg 2009 (= series of publications by the State Museum for Nature and Man. Volume 70).
  • as editor: Aleppo. A war destroys world cultural heritage. History, present, perspectives. Nünnerich-Asmus, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-25-3 .
  • as editor: Aleppo literary: poems, stories, sayings. Nünnerich-Asmus, Mainz 2018.

literature

  • Frank Both: Mamoun Fansa retired - biography 1978–2011 . In: Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch (Ed.): Museum Journal Natur und Mensch: Naturkunde, Kulturkunde, Museumskunde . No. 6 . Isensee, 2010, ISSN  1862-9083 , p. 189-208 .

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SURNAME Fansa, Mamoun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian prehistorian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo