Friedhelm Pedde (born 1953 in Schwerte) is a German Near Eastern archaeologist. He is co-ordinator of the Assur Project in Berlin.
Friedhelm Pedde (born 1953 in Schwerte) is a German Near Eastern archaeologist. He is co-ordinator of the Assur Project in Berlin.
Friedhelm Pedde was an administrative employee at the city administration of Schwerte and completed his Abitur in Dortmund. He first studied at Münster, then at Free University of Berlin Near Eastern archaeology, Indian art history and Iranian studies. The subject of his master's thesis was "Ceramics from North Balochistan". He received his doctorate in Berlin under Hans J. Nissen with the topic Near Eastern Fibula. From Levant to Iran .
From 1987 to 1997 Pedde worked as a consultant and freelancer at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin for the Uruk project. Since 1997 he has been coordinating the "Assur Project" of the German Oriental Society and the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. [1] In the meantime, from 2011 to 2012, he was Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Department Ancient Near East. [2]
Pedde's scientific focus is on the processing and publication of old excavations, in particular concerning the Iraqi sites Uruk/Warka and Assur. Here he is mainly concerned with architecture, metal objects and burials.
He has also studied the archaeological aspects of Karl May's work and deals with historical topics, cultural history and astronomy. [3] [4] [5] Since 2021, he is the second chairman of the board of the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory association in Berlin-Schöneberg. [6]
Pedde has been married to the art historian Brigitte Pedde, née Wolfmüller, since 1988. [7]
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