Moshe Dothan
Moshe Dothan (born 1919 in Poland ; † September 9, 1999 ) was a Polish - Israeli Biblical archaeologist .
Dothan was born in Poland in 1919 and came to the Palestinian Mandate in 1938 during the Alija Bet . Upon arrival, he began studying. Due to the political events of the time, however, Dothan was only able to devote himself fully to his academic career in 1948. During this time he met Trude Krakauer , whom he married in 1950. In the same year he also started his work at the Department of Antiquities. The couple's two sons were born in the mid-1950s and Mosche became director of the Surveys and Excavations Department of the Antiquities Department. He received his doctorate for a thesis on the development from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age . In 1972 he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Haifa . A year later he was commissioned by Elischa Linder and Yehuda Karmon to establish an interdisciplinary institute, the Department of the History of Maritime Civilizations . He headed the institute from 1976 to 1979. In 1983 he founded the Department of Archeology , and headed it for the first few years.
Dothan was a specialist in maritime archeology, the archeology of northern Israel and, above all, the archeology of the Philistines . He took part in excavations in Ashdod and led excavations in Acre . Even after leaving university he continued to research and work on his research results.
Fonts
- with Trude Dothan : The Philistines. Civilization and culture of a sea people. Diederichs, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-424-01233-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mosche Dothan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dothan, Moshe in the Encyclopedia of Judaism
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dothan, mosque |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dôt¯an, Moses |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1999 |