Muhibbe Darga

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Muhibbe Darga (born June 13, 1921 in Istanbul ; † March 6, 2018 there ) was a Turkish archaeologist and full professor at Istanbul University .

Life

Darga was the granddaughter of Sultan Abdülhamid's chamberlain Darugazade Mehmet Emin Bey, who was also known as the poet and translator of Jules Verne's novels from French to Turkish.

Darga was brought up by French governesses and grew up in an educated and cosmopolitan household. She attended schools in Paris and Istanbul. Her father Ahmet Sait was a doctor and because of his obligations, the family traveled extensively through Anatolia in the 1930s.

Darga studied the early 1940s at the University of Istanbul Hittitology at Arif Müfid Mansel and Helmuth Theodor Bossert and ended 1943 successfully their studies. After Bossert's discovery of Karatepe-Arslantaş , Darga became his assistant at the Institute for Ancient Languages ​​and Cultures of Asia Minor in the late 1940s. She received her doctorate in 1947. After research stays in Germany and France, Darga concentrated on philology and did research on Hittite hieroglyphs and the Sidetic language . She also completed her habilitation. In her book Women in Anatolia she examined the situation of women in her country and in Hittite art. She also worked regularly in schools in Anatolia between 1950 and 1959, teaching history, art history and French. In 1973 she became a full professor at Istanbul University .

After participating in several excavations in the 1970s, she became archaeologist in Şemsiyetepe in southeastern Turkey. After working there for more than ten years, she worked in the ancient Phrygian-Hittite city of Dorylaion near Eskişehir in Central Anatolia.

From 1983 she headed the Department of Ancient Languages ​​and Cultures at her university.

She died in Istanbul in March 2018 at the age of 96.

Memberships

Darga was a member of the Türk Tarih Kurumu and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Publications

  • Karahna şehri külle-envanteri: Cuneiform documents from Boghazköi XXXVIII 12 . İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Faküllei, Istanbul 1973
  • Puduḫepa: an Anatolian queen of the thirteenth century BC Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevı, Ankara 1974
  • Eski Anadoluda kadın . İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Faküllei, Istanbul 1976
  • Hitit mimarlığı . İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakanschesi, Istanbul 1985
  • Karatepe azatıwattaya kalesının çanak çömlek buluntulari . Istanbul 1986
  • Hitit sanatı . Akbank, Istanbul 1992
  • Kazı başkanının karavanası: arkeolojinin delikanlısından yemek tarifleri . Can, Istanbul 2010
  • Anadolu´da Kadın. On Bin Yıldır Eş, Anne, Tüccar, Kraliçe (Yapı Kredi Yayınları 3779), Istanbul 2013, ISBN 978-975-08-2426-5

literature

  • Emine Çaykara: Arkeoloji'nin delikanlısı: Muhibbe Darga kitabı . Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Ankara 2003
  • Erkan Konyar, Taner Tarhan, Aksel Tibet: Muhibbe Darga armağanı . Sadberk Hanım Müzesi, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-6959-23-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Türkiye'nin ilk kadın arkeologlarından Muhibbe Darga hayatını kaybetti , Oda.TV, accessed on March 31, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Muhibbe Darga , Biyografya, accessed March 31, 2018
  3. ↑ Muhibbe Darga, one of Turkey's first woman archeologists, laid to rest , Hürriyet, March 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Darga, Muhibbe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2018
Place of death Istanbul