Friedrich Karl Dörner (born 28 February 1911 in

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; died 10 March 1992) was a German

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and Classical Archeologist. Born in 1911 as son of the mining office Karl Dörner and his wife Klara in Gelsenkirchen, he studied at the Universities of

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and

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under

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Classics, and finished his PhD in 1935. Immediately after that, he was employed by the German Archeological Institute in Berlin and went abroad with the institute's archeological scholarship for 1936/37. 1938–1940, he worked for the DAI in

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as research associate. During this time, he worked at

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, and also visited

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and the

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, which from then on formed his major research area. After the war, he worked at

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with his wife, the Germanist Eleonore Dörner, née Benary, and their daughter Susanne. They moved to

where he founded the Institute

. After his retirement, they moved to Nürnberg to be closer to the family with their three granddaughters.

References

Selected publications

* ''Arsameia am Nymphaios: Die Ausgrabungen im Hierothesion des Mithradates Kallinikos von 1953-1956'', mit Theresa Goell. Gebr. Mann, 1963, . * ''Der Thron der Götter auf dem Nemrud Dağ''. 2. Aufl. Gustav Lübbe, 1987, . * ''Von Pergamon zum Nemrud Dağ: Die archäologischen Entdeckungen Carl Humanns,'' mit Eleonore Dörner. P. von Zabern, 1989,

External links

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Homepage der Forschungsstelle Asia Minor der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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