Winfried Orthmann

Winfried Orthmann ( born August 16, 1935) is a German Near Eastern archaeologist.

Life

Winfried Orthmann studied from 1954 to 1961 trays Near Eastern Archaeology, Classical Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Ankara. In 1961 he earned his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin ( with pottery of the Early Bronze Age in Central Anatolia ). After graduation, he was a speaker at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul. From 1966 to 1969 he received a Habilitandenstipendium the DFG. In 1969 his Habilitation at the University of Saarland ( with studies on the Late Hittite art) and in 1971 was appointed Scientific Council and a professor at the University of Saarland. From 1971 to 1994 Orthmann was Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Saarland. From 1994 to 2000, Orthmann Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Classical Studies at the Martin -Luther- University of Halle. End of the summer semester 2000 he became Professor Emeritus and has remained scientifically active. His research focuses on the archeology of Syria from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC and the archeology of the South Caucasus in the Early and Middle Bronze Age.

Work and projects

Travel to the countries of the Near East and excavation campaigns in Ilica (Turkey) and since 1973 to 1974 in Mumbaqat (Syria ) encouraged his scientific work involving special areas of archeology, which primarily include questions about the culture of the Hittites.

After the death of Anton Moortgat 1977, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin, Orthmann continued the excavations of the ancient settlement Tell Chuera (northeast Syria) 1982-1983 together with Ursula Moortgat - Correns from Berlin. Starting in 1986, directs the excavations Orthmann sole responsibility; Since 1994 the project at the Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg is located. In the 1996 campaign part of a large temple complex were of him in layers of the 3rd millennium BC, excavated in the southeast of the city and parts of a palace in the west of the city. In addition, a larger building complex from the mittelassyrischen time (13th century BC) was further exposed. Orthmann was responsible for the management of the archaeological excavations in the Alazani Valley in eastern Georgia the German Research Foundation and 1997 with the aim of complete excavation of a large mound tomb, a so-called Kurgan, the last third of the 3rd millennium. BC was created in the vicinity of the river Alazani. In Halawa in the valley of the Euphrates in Syria archaeological excavations from 1975 to 1986 by an expedition from the University of the Saarland under his direction performed.

He is a regular member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Writings

• The pottery of the Early Bronze Age of Central Anatolia. Berlin 1963.
• The Ancient Orient. Berlin 1975 ( Propylaea Art History 14).
• Studies on the Late Hittite art. Bonn 1971.
• With others: Halawa 1977-1979. Bonn 1981
• With I. Kamp Schulte: Tombs of the 3rd millennium in the Syrian Euphrates valley I. Excavations at Tawi in 1975 and 1978, Bonn 1984..
• Halawa 1980-1986. Bonn 1989.
• With H. Klein, Friedrich Lüth: Tell Chuera in north-east Syria from 1982 to 1983. Berlin 1986.
• With E. Rova: Tombs of the 3rd millennium in the Syrian Euphrates valley II The cemetery of Wreide. Saarbrücken 1991.
• With Abd el- Mesih Baghdo, Martin Lutz and Mirko Novák: excavations at Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria. Preliminary report on the first and second excavation campaign, Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009. ISBN 978-3-447-06068-4
• Harald Klein, Friedrich Lüth: Tell Chuera in north-east Syria. Preliminary report on the ninth and tenth season of excavations in 1982 and 1983, Berlin 1986.
• L'architecture religieuse de Tell Chuera, Akkadica 69 (1990 ) 1-18.
• Tell Chuera. Excavations of Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation in northeast Syria, Damascus and Tartous 1990.
• With others: Excavations at Tell Chuera in north-east Syria I. Report on the excavations from 1986 to 1992, Saarbrücken 1995.
• With others: Excavations at Tell Chuera in north-east Syria I ( Near Eastern Researches of Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation, Volume 2 ), Saarbrücken: Saarbrücken Printing and Publishing, 1995