Anton Moortgat

Anton Moortgat ( born September 21, 1897 in Antwerp, † 9 October 1977 in Damme near Bruges ) was a German Near Eastern archaeologist of Belgian origin.

Life and work

After studying classical archeology, classical philology and ancient history 1916-1918 in Ghent, then in Münster and Berlin, Anton Moortgat 1923 his doctorate under Ferdinand Noack with the work of the ancient gatehouse in its architectural history development. Subsequently, he was a research assistant at the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation in Berlin and since 1929 at the Near Eastern department of the National Museums Berlin operates. In 1938 he was appointed curator in 1941 was appointed professor and taught as visiting professor at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. In 1948, he was professor at the Free University of Berlin and thus entered the successor of Ernst Herzfeld, who until his suspension and subsequent emigration in 1935 held the office, and Eckhard Unger, professor from 1937 to 1945 at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität.

From 1955 to 1976 Anton Moortgat initiated in northeast Syria, the excavations of Tell Fecherije, Tell Ailun and Tell Chuera. In 1967 its representative view The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia, a standard work of Near Eastern archeology, which was also translated into Arabic and English. Moortgats work and greater understanding of the importance of classical art of ancient Mesopotamia. His detailed studies of individual objects, groups of finds and art epochs describe the high intellectual and artistic cohesion of the ancient Near Eastern world of the three pre-Christian millennia.

Writings

  • The Fine Art of the Ancient Near East and the mountain people, Berlin 1932
  • Near Eastern cylinder seals, Berlin 1940
  • The emergence of the Sumerian civilization, Leipzig 1945
  • Tammuz. The belief in immortality in the ancient Near Eastern pictorial art, Berlin 1949
  • History of the Near East until the Hellenistic period in ancient times, in Scharff / Moortgat: Egypt and the Near East in antiquity, Munich 1950
  • The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia I. Sumer and Akkad. DuMont, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1393-4
  • The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia, Assyria and Babylon II. DuMont, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7701-1405-1 ( first edition in one volume, 1967)
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