Manfred Lindner (archaeologist)

Manfred Lindner (born July 22, 1918 in Nuremberg ; † October 30, 2007 there ) was a German neurologist and Nabataean researcher.

Life

Manfred Lindner studied medicine, psychology and philosophy in Erlangen and Munich and received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1944 at the medical faculty and the philosophy faculty. From 1954 to 2001 he worked as a freelance neurologist in Nuremberg. Since the early 1960s he has been doing archaeological research in the rock city of Petra in Jordan and its surroundings. He became a recognized specialist in the archeology and history of the Nabataeans .

His research was supported by the Natural History Society of Nuremberg , of which Lindner was chairman from 1967 to 1985, and of which he founded the Department of Foreign Archeology. Lindner was involved in the creation of an exhibition about the Nabataeans, which was shown in Munich, Nuremberg and Belgium in 1970. In 1991, together with John P. Zeitler, he planned the exhibition "Petra - Queen of the Weihrauchstrasse" in the Nuremberg City Museum Fembohaus .

Lindner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (1st class) (2006), the Bavarian Monument Protection Medal and the Citizens Medal of the City of Nuremberg (1996). In addition, he was an honorary member of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine .

Fonts (selection)

Dissertations

• About the mental processes in mortal danger. A psychological examination of the drowning process. Dissertation. University of Erlangen 1944.
• About the understandability of the mentally ill. Attempt of a theoretical orientation of the problem of understanding in psychiatry. Dissertation. University of Erlangen 1944.

Psychiatric publications

• On the psychopathology of the so-called haunted phenomena. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Neurology. 185, 1950.

Archaeological publications

• Petra. Dream city in the mountains of Jordan. In: Materia medica Nordmark. Special issue 3, 1966.
• (Ed.): Petra. New excavations and discoveries. Munich 1986.
• (Ed.): Petra and the Kingdom of the Nabataeans. Habitat, history and culture of an Arab people in antiquity. 6th edition. Munich 1997.
• Beyond Petra . Archaeological explorations in southern Jordan. Edited by Dieter Vieweger and Hans-Dieter Bienert. On behalf of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land, edited at the Biblical-Archaeological Institute in Wuppertal. Rahden / Westphalia 2003.

literature

• Ulrich Huebner u. a. (Ed.): To Petra and into the kingdom of the Nabataeans. Notes from travel companions for Manfred Lindner on his 80th birthday. Biblical contributions from Bonn 118. Bodenheim 1998.
• alf: Mourning for Dr. Dr. Manfred Lindner , press release No. 1129 of November 5, 2007 of the city of Nuremberg
• Robert Wenning , Ulrich Hübner: Obituary Manfred Lindner (1918-2007) , ZDPV 125, 2009, pp. 94-100

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Lindner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence Manfred Lindner ( Memento from May 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Manfred Lindner in FrankenWiki (with picture)
• Short biography at The Association for the Understanding of Ancient Cultures (AUAC) for the Bulletin of Nabataean Studies (BNS) on auac.ch (English, with picture, list of publications via bibliography search)