Siegfried Mittmann

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Siegfried Mittmann (born October 12, 1933 ) is a Protestant theologian .

Life

After receiving his doctorate in Tübingen on February 24, 1967 and his habilitation in 1972, he taught at his alma mater as a professor of biblical archeology .

On behalf of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in the Holy Land , Mittmann carried out extensive surface examinations in the north east bank between Jabbok and Jarmuk from August 1963 to January 1966 . This work resulted in his dissertation, in which he described over 300 ruins and ancient settlement areas. In addition, he documented the course of the Roman road from Gerasa to Adraa using numerous milestones.

From 1984 to 1994 he researched the early Bronze Age city on the Hirbet ez-Zeraqon in collaboration with the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University in Irbid . In eight excavation campaigns, parts of the seven hectare city complex were exposed.

His daughter is the theologian Ulrike Mittmann .

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the settlement and territorial history of the northern East Bank (= treatises of the German Palestine Association. Volume 83). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1970, ISBN 3-447-00018-X (also dissertation, Tübingen).
  • Deuteronomy 1.1 - 6.3 examined literary criticism and historical tradition (= supplements to the journal for Old Testament science. Volume 139). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975, ISBN 3-11-005728-X (also habilitation thesis, Tübingen 1972).
  • with Arnulf Kuschke and Uwe Müller: Archaeological Survey in the northern Biqāʿ, autumn 1972 (= Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Number 11). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-920153-67-7 .
  • Hirbet ez-Zeraqon, an early Bronze Age city in northern Jordan . Archeology in Germany 1994/2, pp. 10–15.
  • with Götz Schmitt: Tübingen Bible Atlas. Based on the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East (TAVO) . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-89500-217-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Bernhardt: Review of contributions to the settlement and territorial history of the northern East Bank . In: Theologische Literaturzeitung (96) 1971, pp. 896-898. on-line
  2. ^ Project Hirbet-ez-zeraqon - University of Tübingen
personal data
SURNAME Mittmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1933