Machteld Mellink

Machteld Johanna Mellink ( * 1917 in the Netherlands, † 24 February 2006 in Haverford ) was a Dutch- American Near Eastern archaeologist.

Machteld Mellink studied at the University of Amsterdam and during the Second World War as a graduate student at the University of Utrecht. During the German occupation she was active in the Dutch resistance. In 1946 she went to Bryn Mawr College in the United States, where she taught from 1949 until her retirement in 1988, since 1972 as owner of Leslie Clark Chair.

My interest was initially the relationships between the early civilizations of the Near East and Greece. She took from 1947 to 1949 the investigations carried out by Hetty Goldman Excavations at Tarsus, from 1950 to 1965 on the excavations at Gordion part. Since 1963, she devoted herself particularly the level of Elmalı. She discovered here the important Early Bronze Age settlement of Karataş - Semayük his excavations of the hill Kızıbel and Karaburun. She also worked intensively with the exploration of Troy. Of significance also their studies on Anatolian chronology. 1980 to 1984 she was president of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1988 to 1991 of the American Research Institute in Turkey. 1

Mellink has won many awards. From the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Eskişehir, she received honorary doctorates. The Archaeological Institute of America awarded her the gold medal in 1991 and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Drexel Lucy 1994, the Medal for Archaeological Achievement. The Archaeological Institute of America honored her with an additional Machteld Mellink Lecture in Near Eastern Archaeology. In 1975 she was awarded the Bryn Mawr College the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Austrian Archaeological Institute, the Turkish Historical Society and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Publications

• Publications de l'Institut Historique et Archéologique Néerlandais de Stamboul ( eds. the series with AA Kampman ), Istanbul.
• Participation in the volumes 13 and 14 of the Propylaea art history, Propylaea -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main in 1974 and 1985.
• Troy and the Trojan War, 1986.