Markus Hilgert
Markus Hilgert (born August 11, 1969 in Koblenz ) is a German ancient orientalist , cultural manager and general secretary of the Kulturstiftung der Länder .
Education and professional career
Hilgert graduated from the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule in Hadamar in 1989 and was an active member of the Limburger Domsingknaben from 1976 to 1990 . After completing his military service, Hilgert studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies , Semitic Studies , Comparative Religious Studies and Near Eastern Archeology at the Universities of Marburg , Munich and Chicago from 1990 to 1996 . In 1999 he received his doctorate in ancient oriental studies at the University of Marburg.
From 1998 to 2001 Hilgert was a research assistant, then until 2004 research assistant ( C1 ) and from 2004 to 2007 senior assistant (C2) at the Chair for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Jena , where he completed his habilitation in 2004 and received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation from 2006 was. From April 2007 to February 2014 Hilgert was Professor ( W 3 ) for Assyriology with a focus on Sumerology at the University of Heidelberg . From 2009 to 2013 Hilgert was also the Scientific Director of the Uruk Warka Collection in Heidelberg . Visiting professorships or substitute professorships took Hilgert to the University of Chicago in 2001, to the University of Leipzig in 2003, to the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow in 2005 , to the University of Freiburg in the 2006/07 winter semester and to the Scuola Superiore of the University of Catania in 2013 .
From 2011 to 2014 Hilgert was the spokesman for the humanities collaborative research center he initiated on 933 Material Text Cultures. Materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies at Heidelberg University. The theoretical basis is the cultural studies approach of text anthropology introduced by Hilgert in 2010 . From 2012 to 2013 Hilgert was spokesman for the Research Council Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds for the humanities at Heidelberg University. He was also the initiator and founding coordinator of the Heidelberg Center Cultural Heritage , which was founded in 2013 at Heidelberg University.
From March 1, 2014 to May 31, 2018, Hilgert was director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum in the Pergamon Museum of the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and coordinated the national joint project “museum4punkt0 - Digital strategies for the museum of the future” from 2017 on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation until 2018. On December 7, 2017, Hilgert was elected Secretary General by the Board of Trustees of the Kulturstiftung der Länder, succeeding Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen , and took up his post on June 1, 2018. Barbara Helwing became her successor as director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum .
Awards
From 1990 to 1999 Hilgert was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation for basic and doctoral grants . From 1990 to 1995 he was also a fellow of the Dey Foundation of the Diocese of Limburg . In 2005 he was awarded a Heisenberg grant by the German Research Foundation.
In 1988 Hilgert was awarded the special prize of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for overall victory in the state competition for ancient languages of the Hessian Classical Philological Association. His scientific qualification work was honored with the dissertation award of the University of Marburg (2001) and the habilitation award of the University of Jena (2006). In 2011 Hilgert received the annual award from Heidelberg University.
Hilgert is honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg (since 2014), at the University of Marburg (since 2015) and at the Free University of Berlin (since 2017).
Engagement and memberships (selection)
- Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 2008)
- Full member of the philosophy and cultural-historical sciences class of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2008)
- Chairman of the German Orient Society (2009 to 2015)
- Chairman of the expert commission set up by the Baden-Württemberg State Minister for Science, Research and Art Theresia Bauer on the "Situation of the 'Small Subjects' in Baden-Württemberg" of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art (2013 to 2015)
- Deputy Chairman (2015 to 2017) and Chairman (2017 to 2019) of the “Future Council Small Subjects” of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
- Member of the German UNESCO Commission e. V. (since 2016)
- National Correspondent of the International Blue Shield Committee for Germany (2016 to 2017)
- Founding President of Blue Shield Germany (2017 to 2018) and member of the Advisory Board of Blue Shield Germany (since 2018)
- Vice President of the German Association for Archeology e. V. (since 2017)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH; since 2017)
- Member of the Advisory Group of the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund (since 2017)
- Member of the Disaster Risk Management Committee of the International Council of Museums (2017 to 2019)
- Member of the Finance and Resources Committee of the International Council of Museums (since 2020)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Cultural Foundation (since 2018)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Loss of Cultural Property Center (since 2018)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Blue Shield Germany (since 2018)
- Member of the jury of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards (since 2018)
- Member of the board of the German UNESCO Commission e. V. (since 2018)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Arcadia Fund (since 2019)
- Member of the supervisory board of the WIR! - Alliance " Land-Innovation-Lausitz " (since 2019)
Fonts (selection)
Scientific works
- Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, Volume 1: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Šulgi . Oriental Institute Publications 115. Oriental Institute, Chicago 1998. ISBN 1-885923-07-4
- Akkadian in the original III period. Rhema-Verlag, Münster 2002. ISBN 3-930454-32-7 (= dissertation).
- Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, Volume 2: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Amar-Suena . Oriental Institute Publications 121. Oriental Institute, Chicago 2003. ISBN 1-885923-24-4
- Of 'list science' and 'epistemic things'. Conceptual approaches to ancient oriental knowledge practices. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 40, 2009, pp. 277-309.
- Editor: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the 21st Century: Self-Image, Challenges, Goals. (= Communications from the German Orient Society 142). German Orient Society, Berlin 2010. ISSN 0342-118X
- 'Text Anthropology': The exploration of the materiality and presence of the written as a hermeneutic strategy , in: Markus Hilgert (Ed.): Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the 21st Century: Self-Understanding, Challenges, Goals, (= Messages of the German Orient Society 142), 2010, pp. 85-124.
- Materializing Culture - Culturizing Material. On the Status, Responsibilities and Function of Cultural Property Repositories within the Framework of a "Transformative Scholarship" . Middle East - Topics & Arguments 3, 2014, pp. 30–39.
- " From the 'ambivalence of things' to object politics. Object epistemologies in the field of tension between science, society and politics ", in: Markus Hilgert, Henrike Simon and Kerstin P. Hofmann (Eds.), Object Epistemologies. To measure a transdisciplinary research area , Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018, 9–31
- Markus Hilgert, Henrike Simon and Kerstin P. Hofmann (Eds.), Object epistemologies. To measure a transdisciplinary research space , Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018.
- Birthe Hemeier and Markus Hilgert, Transparency - Provenance - Consumer Protection. Facts and recommendations for action on trading in ancient cultural goods in Germany. Results of the BMBF joint project "Procedure to illuminate the dark field as a basis for fighting and preventing crime using the example of ancient cultural assets" (ILLICID) , Berlin: Kulturstiftung der Länder, 2020. ISBN 978-3-00-064933-2 .
Journalistic contributions
- It is also our roots . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 7, 2015.
- The work of destruction has many fathers in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on March 15, 2015, p. 56.
- In any case stolen? - Why there is no alternative to provenance research in archaeological museums. Museum Studies 2015/2, 31-36.
- Guarantors of a society capable of acting. On the political and cultural relevance of small subjects . Politics & Culture No. 2/2016, 1‒2.
- We are not helpless. A 12 point program for sustainable cultural property protection . In: Olaf Zimmermann - Theo Geißler, Old stuff. Contributions to the discussion on sustainable cultural property protection, 2016, 44–47.
- From collecting to protecting. A new model for archaeological museums . Yearbook Prussian Cultural Heritage 51/2015 (2016), 191-213.
- Cultural Diversity through Sustainable Heritage. On the Role of Archaeological Museums as Public Expert Institutions for Heritage Research, in: K. Almquist - L. Belfrage, Cultural Heritage at Risk. The Role of Museums in War and Conflict (2016), 85-105.
- The digital transformation of cultural property protection: 3D digitization of cultural property as part of a strategy to preserve the cultural heritage of humanity . Cultural Policy Communications 156 I / 2017: European Cultural Heritage in a Globalized World, pp. 50–52.
- Why Culture Matters: Fostering Identity Through Cultural Heritage . The Globalist dated November 5, 2017.
- Among vandals . Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 19, 2018.
- Help shape social change. On the tasks of culture-preserving institutions in the context of digital transformation . Journal for Librarianship and Bibliography 65, Issue 4 (2018), 1952202.
- Heal what is broken. The return of the family Bible and whip Hendrik Witboois . Politics and Culture No. 4/2019.
Web links
- Literature by and about Markus Hilgert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage Kulturstiftung der Länder: Board of Directors . Retrieved July 27, 2020.
- Rolf Brockschmidt: Archeology and Text Science: Early Reading on the Agora , Tagesspiegel from September 19, 2013
- Heribert Vogt: Heidelberg Assyriologist moves to Berlin's Museum Island ( Memento from January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from January 13, 2014
- Rolf Brockschmidt, Rüdiger Schaper: On the banks of Babylon , Tagesspiegel from March 17, 2014
- The work of destruction has many fathers . Interview with Tilman Spreckelsen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from March 18, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Material text cultures - Collaborative Research Center 933 at the University of Heidelberg | Current. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ “museum4punkt0” starts: Ideas laboratory for digital applications in German museums - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Homepage Kulturstiftung der Länder: Decision of the Board of Trustees: Markus Hilgert will be the new General Secretary of the Kulturstiftung der Länder , accessed on December 7, 2017
- ↑ taking office. June 1, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2017/03/22/francois-hollande-obtient-76-millions-d-euros-pour-le-sauvetage-du-patrimoine-en-peril_5098787_1655012.html
- ^ Finance and Resources Committee. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Advisory Board. Accessed December 8, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Board of Trustees appoints Prof. Dr. Markus Hilgert as a member of the Board of Trustees. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Jury. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
- ^ Professor Dr Markus Hilgert. In: Arcadia Fund. February 9, 2018, accessed July 30, 2019 (UK English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hilgert, Markus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient orientalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 11th August 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |