Ursula Seidl

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Ursula Seidl (married Ursula Calmeyer-Seidl ; born September 11, 1939 in Saarbrücken ) is a German archaeologist from the Near East .

After graduating from high school in Saarbrücken, Ursula Seidl studied Ancient History and Prehistory in the summer semester of 1957 at the Saarland University, and in the winter semester of 1957/58 at the University of Munich, Classical Archeology , Egyptology and Hittiteology . Since the summer semester of 1958, she has been studying Near Eastern Archeology, Classical Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Philology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1963/64 she studied in Paris. She received her doctorate in 1966 in Berlin with Anton Moortgat with the dissertation "The Babylonian Kudurru Reliefs". In 1967/68 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

At first she worked as a research assistant for Ernst Heinrich , then she worked on small finds from the German excavations in Hattuša . In particular, she dealt with bronze works from Urartu and Assyria .

She was married to the Near Eastern archaeologist Peter Calmeyer (1930-1995).

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