Mirko Novák

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Mirko Novák , actually Miroslav Novák, (born July 12, 1965 in Bratislava ) is a German-Slovak Near Eastern archaeologist .

Mirko Novák studied Near Eastern Archeology , Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies at Saarland University from 1985 to 1992 , where he completed an MA thesis on the typology of Nuzi houses . In 1998 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the subject of rulership and urban architecture . Since his habilitation in 2004 he was a private lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and from 2010 for one year at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In February 2011, he took over a professorship at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences (IAW) at the University of Bern as head of the Middle Eastern Archeology department . Together with Lutz Martin , Jörg Becker and Abd el-Masih Baghdo, he leads the excavation in Tell Halaf as well as the excavation in Sirkeli Höyük with Ekin Kozal (until 2014) and Deniz Yaşin (since 2014) . Before that, he worked on the excavations at Tell Šēḫ Ḥassan, Tell Chuera , Tell Šēḫ Ḥamad / Dur Katlimmu and Qatna . Since 2013 he has been co-editor of the journal Altorientalische Forschungen (De Gruyter-Verlag Berlin) as well as the series of writings on Near Eastern Archeology (Harrassowitz-Verlag Wiesbaden) and Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (Peeters-Verlag Leuven). Since 2015 he has been President of the Swiss Society for Oriental Classical Studies (SGOA).

Fonts

  • Form of rule and urban architecture. Program in the Mesopotamian residential city building from Agade to Surra-man-raʾa . SDV, Saarbrücken 1999 (Writings on Near Eastern Archeology, Volume 7) ISBN 3-930843-49-8
  • The Parthian-Roman cemetery of Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad, Magdala . Reimer, Berlin 2000 (reports from the Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad excavation, Dūr-Katlimmu; Volume 5) ISBN 3-496-02681-2
  • as editor with Friedhelm Prayon and Anne-Maria Wittke : The external impact of the late Hittite cultural area. Exchange of goods - cultural contact - cultural transfer . Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2005 (files of the research conference of the graduate college “Anatolia and its neighbors”, Vol. 2; Old Orient and Old Testament, Volume 323) ISBN 3-934628-63-X
  • together with Abd el-Masih Hanna Baghdo, Lutz Martin and Winfried Orthmann : Excavations on Tell Halaf in northeast Syria. Preliminary report on the third to fifth excavation campaign . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 2012. ISBN 978-3-447-06828-4
  • together with Abd el-Masih Hanna Baghdo, Lutz Martin and Winfried Orthmann: Excavations on Tell Halaf in northeast Syria. Preliminary report on the first and second excavation campaign . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 2009. ISBN 978-3-447-06068-4
  • together with Uwe Finkbeiner , Ferhan Sakal and Paola Sconzo: Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean Vol. IV: Middle Euphrates . Brepols, Turnhout 2015. ISBN 978-2-503-53495-4
  • together with Pascal Attinger, Antoine Cavigneaux and Catherine Mittermayer: Text and Image. Proceedings of the 61 Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, 22-26 June 2015. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalischer Series Archaeologica 40 . Peeters, Leuven 2018. ISBN 978-90-429-3713-0
  • together with Christoph Baumer: Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids. Writings on Near Eastern Archeology 12 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2019. ISBN 978-3-447-11169-0
  • together with Ekin Kozal and Deniz Yaşin: Sirkeli Höyük. An urban center on the Puruna Pyramos in the Cilicia plains. Writings on Near Eastern Archeology 13 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2019. ISBN 978-3-447-11161-4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Mirko Novák . Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern
personal data
SURNAME Novák, Mirko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novák, Miroslav (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Slovak archaeologist from the Near East
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava