Mayke Wagner

Mayke Wagner is a German sinologist and oriental archaeologist .

Mayke Wagner first studied Sinology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1982 to 1984 and moved to the University of Halle in 1984 , where she studied Oriental Archeology and graduated in 1988. 1986/87 she stayed at the Shandong University Jinan to study Modern Chinese Language and Chinese Archeology. In 1988 she continued her studies in Jinan until 1990 and also became a research student at the University of Leipzig . In March 1993 he received his doctorate in the field of Sino-Archeology at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation The motifs of the painted Neolithic ceramics of China. A pictorial atlas on Sino archeology based on style-critical analyzes and arranged in typologies . From 1995 to 1998 Wagner was the holder of a research grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), then until 2000 a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . Since March 2000 she has been deputy head of the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute . In July 2002, Wagner completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in northern China, 8000 to 3500 years ago. The northeastern lowlands (southern part) . In 2005 she taught as Li-Ching Chair Professor at Shandong University, and from April to September 2005 she was a visiting scholar at the International Research Institute for Japanese Studies in Kyoto . In January 2010 she was appointed honorary professor of the Faculty of East Asian Art History at the Free University of Berlin , and in 2012 she was appointed to the Chinese Academy for Cultural Heritage as the first foreign guest scholar . She currently heads the Beijing branch of the Eurasia Department of the DAI, which was founded in 2009.

Wagner is a full member of the DAI. She researches, among other things, traditional salar construction methods , paleopathology in Liushui , Qiang fortified villages in West Sichuan , the Silk Road , the early settlement of the Qaidam Basin, early metallurgy in Xinjiang , Mininamikayabe and Ferdinand von Richthofen .

Fonts

• with Ralf Moritz , Wilmar Mögling (Hrsg.): Sinological traditions reflected in new research. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1993. ( Articles on Universal History and Comparative Social Research , Volume 10.)
• Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in northern China 8000 to 3500 years ago. The northeastern lowlands (southern part). von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3668-3 . ( Archeology in Eurasia , Volume 21.)
• German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department: Current Research Projects. DAI, Berlin 2006.
• with Herbert Butz: nomadic art. Ordos bronzes from the East Asian Art Collection. , von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3812-7 . ( Archeology in Eurasia , Volume 23.)
• with Luan Fengshi, Pavel Tarasow (Hrsg.): Archeology in China. Prehistory at the Lower Reaches of the Yellow River: The Haidai Region. von Zabern, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-8053-4116-5 . ( Archeology in China , Volume 2.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Mayke Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Wagner on the DAI website
• Portrait: Mayke Wagner in the online magazine of the Goethe-Institut China, March 2012
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and Documents of January 12, 2020: Give and Take: Technology and Culture Transfer on the Silk Road. An interview with Mayke Wagner, Scientific Director of the Eurasia Department of the DAI

supporting documents

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Mayke Wagner becomes the first foreign visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy for Cultural Heritage ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )