Peter Neve (building researcher)

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Peter Neve (born April 3, 1929 in Malente ; † January 25, 2014 ) was a German building researcher . He spent his scientific life during the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in the capital of the Hittites , in Hattuša .

Peter Neve first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then studied architecture at the TH Hannover from 1951 to 1957 . In 1969 he started working on rain cult systems in Bogazköy-Hattuša. An attempt at interpretation at the TU Berlin is doing his doctorate.

In Hattuša, Neve had been an employee since 1954, a permanent employee since 1957, local excavation manager from 1963 and from 1978 to 1993 as successor to Kurt Bittel's overall director of research. From 1974 to 1993 he was also head of the Ankara branch of the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute . Conservation and restoration measures that have been consistently carried out since the 1960s led to the conversion of the excavation area into an archaeological open-air museum and, in 1986, to the UNESCO World Heritage List . With his excavations in various areas of the city and the associated spectacular finds, he not only made groundbreaking insights into the history of the city complex, but also the history of the Hittite Empire. Jürgen Seeher succeeded him as excavation manager in 1994 .

Neve was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and an honorary member of the Turkish Institute for Classical Studies (Türk Eskiçağ Bilimleri Enstitüsü). In 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul for his extraordinary contribution to archaeological research in Anatolia. In 1993 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in that year volume 43 of the Istanbuler Mitteilungen appeared as a commemorative publication for Peter Neve. In 2005 he was made an honorary citizen of Boğazkale, the former Boğazköy, on whose grounds the ruins of the Hittite capital are located.

Fonts (selection)

  • Rain cult facilities in Boğazköy-Hattuša. An attempt at interpretation (= Istanbuler Mitteilungen. Supplement. 5, ISSN  0418-9701 ). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1971 (also: Berlin (West), Technical University, dissertation, 1969).
  • Ḫattuša. City of gods and temples. New excavations in the capital of the Hittites (= Ancient World . Special. ). Mainz, von Zabern 1992, (Also: (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . Vol. 8). Von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1478-7 (2nd, expanded edition. Ibid. 1996)).

literature

  • Jürgen Seeher : Peter Neve, list of publications up to 1993. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen. Vol. 43, 1993, ISSN  0341-9142 , pp. 12-16.
  • Ronald L. Gorny: A tribute to Peter Neve. In: The Biblical Archaeologist. Vol. 58, No. 2, 1995, ISSN  0006-0895 , p. 62, JSTOR 3210475 .
  • Jürgen Seeher: Forty Years in the Capital of the Hittites. Peter Neve retires from his position as director of the Ḫattuša-Boğazköy excavations. In: The Biblical Archaeologist. Vol. 58, No. 2, 1995, pp. 63-67, JSTOR 3210476 .
  • Jürgen Seeher: In Memoriam Peter Neve. In: Istanbul communications. Vol. 64, 2014, pp. 7-13.

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personal data
SURNAME Neve, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Malente
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2014