Trude Dothan
Trude Dothan , née Krakauer, (born October 12, 1922 in Vienna , † January 28, 2016 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli biblical archaeologist of Austrian origin .
Trude Dothan was born in Vienna in 1922 as the daughter of the well-known architect Leopold Krakauer and the abstract painter Grete Krakauer-Wolf and immigrated with her family to the British Mandate Palestine in 1924 during the Fourth Aliyah . She began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the mid-1940s . In 1945 she took part in an excavation for the first time in Beth Yerah ( Khirbet Kerak ). Her master's thesis in 1950 was on Khirbet Kerak ceramics. During the War of Independence (1947-1949), her studies were initially interrupted by her military service. During her military service, she first came into contact with the culture of the Philistines . These and the intercultural relations between the Mediterranean peoples became the content of her lifelong studies. In 1951 she married her colleague Mosche Dothan , two sons, the musician Danny Dothan and the computer artist Uri Dothan were born in the 1950s. During a stay abroad (1951/52) at the University of Chicago , Trude Dothan was strongly influenced by the work of Helene Kantor, who taught there . In 1953 she was at the Institute of Archeology in London , where she came into contact with Kathleen Kenyon and Olga Tufnell .
Dothan received her doctorate in 1961. Since 1962 she has been a member of the faculty at the University of Jerusalem. With Jigael Jadin she dug in Hazor , with Benjamin Mazar in En Gedi and with Amnon Ben-Tor in Athienou on Cyprus . Further excavations were in Dair al-Balah and together with Seymour Gitin as director in Tel Miqne ( Ekron ). From 1977 to 1982 she headed the Department of Archeology . She has taught as visiting professor at Princeton University , Brown University , the University of California and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . She was a member of the Israel Museum's Board of Directors and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . Dothan received the Israel Museum's Percia Schimmel Award in 1991, the Israel Prize in the Archeology category in 1998, and the Hadassah Woman of Distinction Award .
Fonts
- with Benjamin Mazar and I. Dunayevsky: En-Gedi: The First and Second Seasons of Excavations, 1961–1962 . Department of Antiquities and Museums, in: The Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem 1966
- with Moshe Dothan : The Philistines. Civilization and culture of a sea people . Diederichs, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-424-01233-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Trude Dothan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography and list of publications on the website of the Institute of Archeology (Version of December 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Orna Hess, Biography of Trude Dothan , Jewish Women Encyclopedia (English)
Remarks
- ↑ https://jwa.org/people/dothan-trude Jewish Women Encyclopedia (English) accessed on June 11, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dothan, Trude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krakauer, Trude; Dothan, Trude K .; Dothan, Trude Krakauer; Dôt¯an, Trûd¯a |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 2016 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |