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German Archaeological Institute
The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. History Eduard Gerhard founded the institute. Upon his departure from Rome in 1832, the headquarters of the ''Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica'', as it was then named, was established in Berlin. Its predecessor institute was founded there by Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Theodor Panofka and August Kestner in 1829. Hans-Joachim Gehrke was president of the institute from March 2008 to April 2011, and has been succeeded by Friederike Fless. Facilities The DAI currently has offices in cities including Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran and Sana'a. The DAI's Romano-Germanic Commission (Römisch-Germanische Kommission) includes the world's largest library for prehistoric archaeology and is located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Gerhard
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (29 November 1795 – 12 May 1867) was a German archaeologist. He was co-founder and secretary of the first international archaeological society. Biography Gerhard was born at Posen, and was educated at Breslau and Berlin. The reputation he acquired by his ''Lectiones Apollonianae'' (1816) led soon afterwards to his being appointed professor at the gymnasium of Posen. On resigning that office in 1819, on account of weakness of the eyes, he went in 1822 to Rome, where he remained for fifteen years. Gerhard was one of the principal originators of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, founded at Rome in 1829, with the support of the Prussian crown prince, Frederick William. Co-founders included Theodor Panofka, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and August Kestner. This model of international cooperation and systematic scientific publication was influenced by the example of Alexander von Humboldt, and later became the present-day German Archa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Historical Institute
The German Historical Institutes (GHI), german: Deutsche Historische Institute, (''DHI'') are six independent academic research institutes of the Max Weber Foundation dedicated to the study of historical relations between Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ... and the host countries in which they are based. The institutes are: * German Historical Institute in Rome (established in 1888) * German Historical Institute Paris (1958) * German Historical Institute London (1976)''German Historical Institute: 40 year anniversary''. German Historical Institute, London, 2016. p. 4. * German Historical Institute Washington DC (1987) * German Historical Institute Warsaw (1993) * German Historical Institute Moscow (2005) See also * German Studies Association * Perspectivia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanouil Korres
Emmanouil Korres (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Κορρές, born 1948) is a major Greek restoration architect, civil engineer and professor of architectural history at postgraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens. Currently he is head of the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and a casual member of the Academy of Athens since 2017. Academic career He studied architectural engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (1972), he did his postgraduate studies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: ''Technische Universität München'') (1975–77), he earned a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin (German: ''Freie Universität Berlin'', often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) (1991) and of the National Technical University of Athens (1992). He worked as an engineer at the Acropolis Restoration Service (1975, 1977–1979) until he reached the position of the Head of the Department of Restorations at the Directorate for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Oldenstein
Jürgen Oldenstein (born 1947 in Düsseldorf ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist. Beginning in 1968 Oldenstein studied Provincial Roman Archeology, Pre- and Early History, and Ancient History at the Goethe University Frankfurt, and 1970/71 Pre-and Early History and Provincial Roman Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1974 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt with a dissertation ''Zur Ausrüstung römischer Auxiliareinheiten '' ("On the equipment of Roman auxiliary units") and then worked from 1975 to 1979 as a research assistant at the ''Römisch-Germanischen Kommission'' of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt. In 1979 he became an academic assistant at the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. In 1990 Oldenstein was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. In 1992 he was received his Habilitation in Mainz ("Venia legendi" for Pre- and Early History with special consideration of Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaos Kaltsas (archaeologist)
Nikolaos Kaltsas ( el, Νικόλαος Καλτσάς; born in Dialambi, Rhodope) is a Greek classical archaeologist. Kaltsas studied classical archaeology at the University of Thessaloniki, where he received his doctorate in 1985. Having already served as curator at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia (1981-1983), he became curator of the sculptural collection at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and from 2002 to 2012 was director of the museum. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. Selected publications * ''Olympia'', Archaeological Receipts Fund, Athens 1997. * ''Τα γλυπτά. Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο, κατάλογος'', Kapon, Athen 2001, . ** Translated as: ''Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens'', The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002 . * "Die Kore und der Kouros aus Myrrhinous Myrrhinus or Myrrinous ( grc, Μυρρινοῦς) was a deme of ancient Attica. It lay to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Ettlinger
Elisabeth Ettlinger, ( Lachmann; 14 July 1915 – 21 March 2012) was a German-born archaeologist and academic, who specialised in archaeology of the Roman provinces and Roman Switzerland. From 1964 to 1980, she taught at the University of Bern, having emigrated to Switzerland in the 1930s to escape Nazi Germany. Her research centred on Roman ceramics such as Terra Sigillata, and she co-founded ''Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores'', a learned society dedicated to Roman pottery: she was its secretary, vice-president and then served as its president from 1971 to 1980. From September 1963 to June 1964, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Honours Ettlinger was elected to the German Archaeological Institute in 1968, and as a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in 1975. On 27 November 1975, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevhen Chernenko
Yevhen Vasylovych Chernenko ( uk, Євген Васильович Черненко; 5 October 1934 – 3 January 2007) was a Ukrainian archaeologist. He was Professor of Archaeology at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and an internationally renowned expert on Scythian archaeology. Biography Yevhen Vasylovych Chernenko was born on October 5, 1934, in the village of Buda, Malyn Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. During his evacuation to Orenburg Oblast along with his mother in World War II, Chernenko read the works of the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, which greatly impressed him. Cherneko graduated from the Department of History at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1958, and was then sent to the Department of Scytho-Ancient Archaeology of the NASU Institute of Archaeology, with which he would be affiliated for the rest of his life. He began his postgraduate studies in 1960 and defended his Ph.D. thesis on Scythian military equipme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eszter Bánffy
Eszter Bánffy, (born 1957) is a Hungarian prehistorian, archaeologist, and academic. Since 2013, she has been Director of the Romano-Germanic Commission at the German Archaeological Institute. She is also a professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Honours On 9 April 2015, Bánffy was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. In 2017, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanit ... for the humanities and social sciences. She is also an elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Selected works * * * * References External links * :de:Eszter Bánffy {{DEFAULTSORT:Bánffy, Eszter 1957 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Schmidt (archaeologist)
Klaus Schmidt (11 December 1953 – 20 July 2014) was a German archaeologist and prehistorian who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014. Education and career Klaus Schmidt studied pre- and protohistory, as well as classical archaeology and geology at the universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg. He completed his doctorate in 1983 at the Heidelberg University under the direction of Harald Hauptmann. He received a travel stipend from the German Archaeological Institute from 1984 to 1986. From 1986 to 1995, he received a research stipend from the German Research Foundation and was employed at the Institute of pre- and proto-history of the Heidelberg University, working on various projects with the German Archaeological Institute and the Heidelberg University. In 1995, he became the leader of the excavations at Gürcütepe and Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey. He received his habilitation in 1999 from the University of Erlangen and in 2000 became Privatdozent in Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It is a university city and the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven. Founded in the 1st century BC as a Roman settlement in the province Germania Inferior, Bonn is one of Germany's oldest cities. It was the capital city of the Electorate of Cologne from 1597 to 1794, and residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne. From 1949 to 1990, Bonn was the capital of West Germany, and Germany's present constitution, the Basic Law, was declared in the city in 1949. The era when Bonn served as the capital of West Germany is referred to by historians as the Bonn Republic. From 1990 to 1999, Bonn served as the seat of government – but no longer capital – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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