Winfried Orthmann

Winfried Orthmann (born in 1935) is a German archaeologist specialized on Near East regions.
Life
Winfried Orthmann studiedthe ancient history of the Middle East, classical archaeology and Assyriology from 1954 to 1961 at universities in Munich, Berlin and Ankara. He received his doctoral degree in 1961 promovierte at the Free University of Berlin (thesis title: Keramik der Frühen Bronzezeit aus Inneranatolien). After his studies, he was an instructor at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul. From 1966 to 1969 he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to support his habilitation, which took place in 1969 at Saarland University with his publication of Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst (Investigations of Late Hittite Art). In 1971 his was appointed as a scientific advisor and professor at Saarland University, where he remained from 1971 to 1994 as a professor for Near Eastern archaeology...