Trude Dothan

Trude Dothan ( born Krakauer, born October 12, 1922 in Vienna ) is an Austria -born Biblical archaeologist in Israel.

Dothan was born in Vienna, and came with her family at the age of one year into what was then British Mandate Palestine. Mid-1940s, she began to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1945, she participated in Beth Yerah ( Khirbet Kerak ) was the first part in an excavation. Her master's thesis in 1950 had Khirbet Kerakische ceramic on the topic. During the Unanbhägigkeitskrieges ( 1948-50 ) their studies were temporarily interrupted by their military service. During her military service, she also was first introduced to the culture of the Philistines into contact. She and intercultural relations between the Mediterranean peoples should be the content of their lifelong studies. In 1950, she married Moshe Dothan, two sons came in the 1950s to the world. During a stay abroad (1951 /52) at the University of Chicago was heavily influenced Trude Dothan of the work of the professors teaching there Helene Kantor. 1953, she was in London, where she came in contact with Kathleen Kenyon and Olga Tufnell at the Institute of Archaeology.

In 1961, Dothan promotion. Since 1962 it belonged to the faculty of the University in Jerusalem. With Jigael Jadin she dug in Hazor, with Benjamin Mazar in En Gedi and Amnon Ben -Tor in Athienou Cyprus. Further excavations were at Deir el- Balah and together with Seymour Gitin as director in Tel Miqne ( Ekron ). From 1977 to 1982 she headed the Department of Archaeology. As a guest professor she taught at Princeton University, Brown University, the University of California and the New York Institute of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Israel Museum 's Board of Directors and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. Dothan was awarded the Israel Prize awarded the Israel Museum 's Percia mold Award 1998 in the category of archeology and the Hadassah Woman of Distinction Award.

Writings

  • Benjamin Mazar and I. Dunayevsky: En- Gedi: The First and Second Seasons of Excavations, 1961-1962, Department of Antiquities and Museums, in: The Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem 1966
  • Moshe Dothan, The Philistines. Civilization and culture of the Sea People, Diederichs, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-424-01233-5
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