Eckhard Unger

Eckhard Unger ( * April 11, 1884 in Landsberg on the Warta River, † July 24, 1966 ) was a German orientalist and Near Eastern archaeologist.

Life

Eckhard Unger was the son of the lawyer William III. Unger (1849-1910) and his wife Helene, née von Sassen (1851-1935) was born. He was the great-grandson of the dukes of Mecklenburg- strelitzschen court painter Wilhelm I. Unger (1775-1855), and direct descendant of the widely ramified family of painters table leg from Haina in the Hesse- Kassel.

Unger visited humanistic Gymnasium in Berlin ( Luisengymnasium ), urban high school Prenzlau and Leipzig, and in 1904 the Abitur at the Thomas School in Leipzig. From 1904 to 1911 he studied classical archeology, Assyriology, ethnology and art history in Leipzig and attended lectures by Max Heinze, Otto Immisch, Karl Lamprecht, Joseph Partsch, Gerhard Seeliger, August Schmarsow, Theodor Schreiber, Georg Stein Dorff, Franz Studniczka, Wilhelm Wachsmuth, Franz Weissbach, Karl Weule, Ulrich Wilcken, Wilhelm Wundt and Heinrich rooms. In 1911 he became the Dr. phil. doctorate. From 1911 to 1918 Unger will assist you as curator of the Oriental Department of the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul and taught from 1915 to 1918 at the University Darülfünun in Istanbul. Unger is one of the first Near Eastern archaeologists. In 1921 he was a laborer in the Foreign Office. In 1923 he was co-founder of the Oriental Society of Hiddensee 1924 habilitated in Berlin for Near Eastern Archaeology and in 1930 was appointed extraordinary professor. 1924 to 1925 and 1932 to 1935, he led the ancient Near Eastern department of the museum in Istanbul. In 1937, he was a tenured professor at the University of Berlin as successor to Ernst Herzfeld. Unger held this chair until 1945. In 1937 he wrote the script, the ancient swastika as a hurricane. World and Man in the Ancient Orient. In 1943 he married Irmgard Brückner ( 1886-1978 ), daughter of a long-established academics gender from Neubrandenburg. Together, the couple took part in rebuilding the war-ravaged city in Mecklenburg and acquired in the late 1940s lasting service to the re-establishment of the Regional Museum in Neubrandenburg. After his retirement Unger taught continue teaching at the universities of Greifswald and Rostock and took his retirement home in Neubrandenburg. At the age he ran seal image research and dealt with topics südostmecklenburgischer history and their own family research. In 1953 he supervised excavations in the Neubrandenburg St. Mary's Church. Unger died during a lecture tour in the FRG ( in Helmstedt? ) And found in the new cemetery Neustrelitz his final resting where his grave is preserved. Unger's estate entered the " family archive Brückner ( Neubrandenburg ) ", which has recently come into the Regional Museum in Neubrandenburg remnants after a long odyssey.

Unger's merits lie in the partial reassessment of the Neo-Assyrian art. For example, he presented a new approach to the reconstruction of the port of Balawat. He was also the first researcher who conducted research to the White Obelisk. He also published the reliefs of Tiglath-Pileser III. Identified in 1916 and he described as curator of the Archaeological Museum Istanbul, one is exploiting Knitting in the museum's collection found object as a benchmark. This from the 3rd millennium BC, originating Nippur cubit is now considered Urmass the vormetrischen length measurements.

Writings

• For bronze door of Balawat. Contributions to the explanation and interpretation of the Assyrian inscriptions and reliefs of Shalmaneser III. Eduard Pfeiffer, Leipzig 1913. ( = Dissertation).
• Two Babylonian antiquities from Nippur. Konstantin Opel 1916. ( Publications of the Imperial Ottoman Museum, 1 )
• The restoration of the bronze door of Balawat. In: Reports of the German Archaeological Institute. Athenian division 45, 1920, pp. 1-105.
• Sumerian and Akkadian art. Hirt, Wroclaw 1926.
• Assyrian and Babylonian art. Ferd. Hirt, Wroclaw 1927.
• The city of Assur. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1929. ( The old Orient, 27.3 )
• Babylon. The holy city after the description of the Babylonians. Berlin 1931 Photomechanical Nachdr the ed of 1931, ext. a Preface by Rykle Borger. De Gruyter, Berlin, 1970.