Rainer Czichon

Rainer Maria Czichon (born September 15, 1961 in Munich ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Life

From 1967 to 1971 he attended elementary school in Markt Schwaben and from 1971 to 1980 the mathematics and natural science high school in Erding , where he passed the Abitur. From 1980 to 1991 he studied Middle Eastern archeology, Assyriology , osteo-archeology and Egyptology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he earned his MA in February 1986 with his master's thesis The Representation of Posture and Movement on Neo-Assyrian Reliefs and his dissertation The design principles of the Neo-Assyrian flat art on July 16, 1992 magna cum laude was awarded a doctorate . With the habilitation studies on regional history of Hattusha-Bogazköy he was on 26 January 2004 at the University of Würzburg habilitation . In 1986 he was a full-time research assistant at the Institute for Assyriology at the University of Munich. From 1992 to 1994 he was a lecturer at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg in the section "Ancient Orient". From 1987 to 1994 he was a research assistant on the DFG project Tall Munbaqa at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in the urban development and planning department. From 1994 to 1999 he worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul as advisor for archeology in Asia Minor and head of the library . In summer 2001 he taught as a guest lecturer at the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi . As a postdoctoral fellow from the German Research Foundation (1999–2002), he was a lecturer at the Oriental Institute of the University of Würzburg. From 2002 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Near Eastern Archeology at the Free University of Berlin and co-organizer of the fourth International Congress of the Archeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) in Berlin in 2004 . From 2005 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Near Eastern Archeology at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2004 he has been a private lecturer with a license to teach at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Würzburg. Since 2006 he has had paid teaching positions in the winter semester at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In January 2007 he taught as an Erasmus lecturer at the Selçuk University in Konya . Since 2009 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Nerik project).

Fonts (selection)

• The design principles of Neo-Assyrian flat art and their development from the 9th to the 7th century BC Chr. (= Munich Near East Studies. Volume 13). (= Munich University Writings. Philosophical Faculty. Volume 12). Profil-Verlag, Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-89019-308-0 (also dissertation, Munich 1992).
• with Peter Werner: excavations in Tall Munbāqa - Ekalte. Volume 1. The small Bronze Age finds (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society . Volume 97). Saarbrücken, ISBN 3-447-05554-5 .
• with Peter Werner: excavations in Tall Munbāqa - Ekalte. Volume 4. Bronze Age ceramics (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. Volume 118). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05675-5 .
• as editor with Hartmut Kühne and Florian J. Kreppner : Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archeology of the Ancient Near East. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008.
  • Volume 1. The reconstruction of environment: Natural resources and human interrelations through time. Art history: Visual communication . ISBN 3-447-05703-3 .
  • Volume 2. Social and cultural transformation: The archeology of transitional periods and dark ages. Excavation reports . ISBN 3-447-05757-2 .
• as editor with Dominik Bonatz and F. Janoscha Kreppner: Fundstellen . Collected writings on the archeology and history of the ancient Near East. Ad honorem Hartmut Kühne. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05770-7 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and list of publications on the website of the Free University of Berlin