Margarete van Ess

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Margarete van Ess (* 1960 ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Margarete van Ess and Massimo Osanna at the 2015 Academy Day in Berlin.

Life

Margarete van Ess, daughter of the Islamic scholar Josef van Ess , studied after graduating from Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen from 1980 to 1988 Near Eastern Archeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies as well as Prehistory and Early History at the University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin . In 1988 she completed the first part of her studies with a master's thesis on ceramics from the Akkadian to ancient Babylonian times from Uruk . In 1989 van Ess became a research assistant in the Baghdad department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Among other things, she was the local director of the excavations in Uruk / Warka and was responsible for the publication of several groups of finds . The doctorate took place in 1996 at the Free University of Berlin with Hans J. Nissen and HG Schmid with the text The Architecture of the Eanna Sanctuary in Uruk for Ur III and Old Babylonian Period. Construction concept for a sanctuary . Since 1996 she has been Scientific Director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute and head of the Baghdad branch. In 1997, van Ess began managing excavation projects in Baalbek-Douris and Baalbek as well as in Uruk and Sippar in Iraq. In 1998 she was responsible for setting up and opening a museum in Baalbek. With the outbreak of the Third Gulf War , a stronger commitment to cultural-political issues began in 2003, in particular for the preservation of the archaeological heritage in Iraq and beyond. From autumn 2004 to 2010 she was the coordinator of a project ARCANE ( Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean ) funded by the European Science Foundation , and since 2007 van Ess has also been a conceptual collaborator of the DAI's 4 Sanctuaries . Active archaeological work in Iraq has not been possible since 2003, which is why van Ess can only provisionally manage the branch in Baghdad. In addition, she is the second director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute until she will succeed Ricardo Eichmann as director of the department in autumn 2020 .

Van Ess has been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1996, German member of the International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Iraq of UNESCO and the organization's elected rapporteur since May 2004 . In addition, she has been a member of the Sub-Committee for the protection, conservation and management of the archaeological site of Babylon of UNESCO since June 2005 . She is on the scientific advisory board of the Tempora - Annales d'histoire et d'archéologie magazine . Together with Ricardo Eichmann, she publishes the journal for oriental archeology .

Publications

  • with Friedhelm Pedde: asphalt, leftover paint, frit, faience, glass, wood, bone, ivory, leather, shell, mother-of-pearl, snail, reed, textiles , von Zabern, Mainz 1992 (excavations in Uruk-Warka, vol. 7) ISBN 3 -8053-1223-7
  • Editor with Thomas Maria Weber : Baalbek. Under the spell of Roman monumental architecture , von Zabern, Mainz 1999 ( Zabern's illustrated books on archeology / special volumes on the ancient world ) ISBN 3-8053-2495-2
  • Heliopolis - Baalbek, research in ruins. Exhibition brochure , Das Arabische Buch, Berlin 1998 [2. Edition 2001] ISBN 3-86093-309-4
  • Heliopolis - Baalbek. Rediscovering the ruins [Interactive CD-ROM], 2001
  • Uruk. Architecture II. From the Akkad to the Middle Babylonian Period, Part I: The Eanna Shrine to the Ur III and Old Babylonian Period [2 volumes], 2001 (AUWE 15) ISBN 3-8053-2812-5
  • Editor: German Archaeological Institute, Orient Department - Baghdad branch. 50 years of research in Iraq 1955–2005 , 2005
  • Editor: Baalbek / Heliopolis. Results of Archaeological and Architectural Research 2002–2005 , 2008 (Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, Hors Series 4)
  • with Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke, Arnold Nöldeke : Letters from Uruk-Warka 1931–1939 , Reichert, Reichert 2008 ISBN 978-3-89500-485-8

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SURNAME Ess, Margarete van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Middle East
DATE OF BIRTH 1960