Peter Pfälzner

Peter Pfälzner (* 1960 in Nuremberg ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Peter Pfälzner came into contact with archeology while he was still at school at the Nuremberg Education Center . From 1979 to 1986 he studied ancient oriental studies , classical archeology as well as prehistory and early history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin . 1991 received his doctorate in Berlin; his dissertation was on the subject of the development of ceramics from the 14th to the early 11th century BC. In northern Mesopotamia . Until 1992 he was employed as a research assistant at the seminar for Near Eastern Antiquity at the Free University of Berlin. In 1993/1994 he was a lecturer at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, and in 1994/1995 he was a research assistant at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he also did a thesis on the subject of house and household. Housing forms of the 3rd millennium BC In northern Mesopotamia . In 1995/1996 a private lecturer followed in Halle . In 1996 he was also a Heisenberg scholar and was appointed to the chair of Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Tübingen. Pfälzner led the excavation of Qatna with Michel Maqdissi and Daniele Morandi . He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

literature

• Peter Pfälzner in: Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie 19 (2002/03), p. 102

Fonts (selection)

• Middle Eastern and Middle Assyrian ceramics. A chronological, functional and economic production analysis (text and table volume), Reimer, Berlin 1995 (reports from the Tall S¯eh. Hamad excavation, D¯ur-Katlimmu, vol. 3) ISBN 3-496-02505-0
• House and household. Housing forms of the third millennium BC in northern Mesopotamia , Zabern, Mainz 2001 (Damascus research, vol. 9) ISBN 3-8053-2416-2
• with Betina Faist : A History of the City of Mardama (n) , dubsar Volume 17, pp. 347–391, Münster 2020 ISBN 978-3-96327-102-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Pfälzner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Pfälzner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pfälzner on the website of the University of Tübingen
• Writings by Peter Pfälzner in Propylaeum-DOK