Hermann Parzinger

Hermann Parzinger is a German historian who is a specialist in the culture of the Scythians. He has been president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 1 March 2008^[1] and the Executive President of Europa Nostra since 2018.^[2]

Honours and awards

Since 1996 honorary professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Freie Universität Berlin
1998 Leibniz Prize (highest endowed German research, which for the first time went to an archaeologist).
Numerous scientific honors, including the honorary doctorates of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and honorary diplomas of the Republic of Tuva and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
Honorary member of the Archaeological Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Iasi.
In 2008, Parzinger was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Germering.^[3]
On November 4, 2009, Parzinger was awarded the Order of Friendship, the highest Russian award for foreign citizens. He was also awarded in the German-Russian scientific and cultural relations that lead him for decades regularly to Russia for his outstanding scientific achievements and its multiple commitments.
2011 awarded the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences Hermann Parzinger the Reuchlin Prize [de] of the city of Pforzheim (named after the humanist Johannes Reuchlin, who was born in 1455 in Pforzheim). The Heidelberg Academy justified this choice, among other things, that Parzinger have opened up with his time and transnational approach to research new territory for archeology and strengthened the importance of the humanities in the public consciousness.
On 29 May 2011, the Chapter of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts added Parzinger to its domestic members.
On 4 October 2012, Parzinger received Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany^[4]
2013, Parzinger of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz the first ever Kalkhof-Rose Academy Award.^[5]
2013 Parzinger was a member of the American Philosophical Society elected, the oldest learned society of the United States. Thus, the company pays a special tribute that he initiated in cooperation with Russian archaeologists and his extensive publication record and his outstanding work as a cultural manager.
2014 he was elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[6]
On 14 September 2015, Parzinger was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana – OMRI) Award.^[7]
2016 Parzinger was named co-chair of the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals for 2017–2019 which aims to educate provenance researchers through exchanges, workshops and tours.^[8]
3 November 2017, Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise^[9]

Selected publications

Chronologie der Späthallstatt- und Frühlatene-Zeit. Studien zu Fundgruppen zwischen Mosel und Save. Weinheim 1988. ISBN 3-527-17533-4 (Quellen und Forschungen zur prähistorischen und provinzialrömischen Archäologie Bd. 4)
mit Rosa Sanz: Die Oberstadt von Hattuşa. Hethitische Keramik aus dem zentralen Tempelviertel. Funde aus den Grabungen 1982–1987. Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-7861-1656-3 (Boğazköy-Hattuşa Bd. 15)
Studien zur Chronologie und Kulturgeschichte der Jungstein-, Kupfer- und Frühbronzezeit zwischen Karpaten und Mittlerem Taurus. Zabern, Mainz 1993. ISBN 3-8053-1501-5 (Römisch-Germanische Forschungen Bd. 52)
Der Goldberg. Die Metallzeitliche Besiedlung. Zabern, Mainz 1998. ISBN 3-8053-2463-4 (Römisch-Germanische Forschungen Bd. 57)
mit Rosa Sanz: Das Castro von Soto de Bureba. Archäologische und historische Forschungen zur Bureba in vorrömischer und römischer Zeit. Rahden/Westf. 2000. ISBN 3-89646-014-5.
mit Viktor Zajbert, Anatoli Nagler, Alexander Plesakov: Der große Kurgan von Bajkara. Studien zu einem skythischen Heiligtum. Zabern, Mainz 2003. ISBN 3-8053-3273-4 (Archäologie in Eurasien Bd. 16)
mit Necmi Karul, Zeynep Eres, Mehmet Özdoğan: Aşağı Pınar I. Zabern, Mainz 2003. (Archäologie in Eurasien Bd. 15 / Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum Bd. 1)
mit Nikolaus Boroffka: Das Zinn der Bronzezeit in Mittelasien I. Die siedlungsarchäologischen Forschungen im Umfeld der Zinnlagerstätten (Archäologie in Iran und Turan Bd. 5), Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3135-5; ausführliche Rezension von Sören Stark in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Band 105, 2010, Heft 1, S. 97–104.
Die Skythen. Beck'sche Reihe 2342, München 2004. ISBN 3-406-50842-1.
mit Heiner Schwarzberg: Aşağı Pınar II. Die mittel- und spätneolithische Keramik. Zabern, Mainz 2005. ISBN 3-8053-3541-5 (Archäologie in Eurasien Bd. 18 / Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum Bd. 2)
Die frühen Völker Eurasiens. Vom Neolithikum zum Mittelalter. Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2006. ISBN 3-406-54961-6.
mit Wilfried Menghin, Manfred Nawroth und Anatoli Nagler (Hrsg.): Im Zeichen des Goldenen Greifen. Königsgräber der Skythen. Prestel Verlag, München 2007.
mit Konstantin V. Tschugunov und Anatoli Nagler: Der Goldschatz von Arschan. Schirmer/Mosel, München 2006. ISBN 3-8296-0260-X.
Gero von Merhart, Daljóko. Bilder aus sibirischen Arbeitstagen. Böhlau-Verlag, Wien, Köln, Weimar 2009.
mit Thomas Flierl (Hrsg.): Humboldt-Forum Berlin. Das Projekt. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009.
mit Konstantin V. Tschugunov und Anatoli Nagler: Der skythenzeitliche Fürstenkurgan von Arschan 2 in Tuva. Zabern, Mainz 2010. (Archäologie in Eurasien Bd. 26 / Steppenvölker Eurasiens Bd. 3)
Die Kinder des Prometheus. Eine Geschichte der Menschheit vor der Erfindung der Schrift. 848 S. mit 110 Abbildungen und 19 Karten, größtenteils farbig. C. H. Beck Verlag München 2015, 4. Aufl. 2015 ISBN 978-3-406-66657-5.

References

^ Hickley, Catherine (19 May 2016). "Berlin's lost Renaissance sculptures rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum". theartnewspaper.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^ "Board". Europa Nostra. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
^ "Stadt ist stolz auf ihren erfolgreichen Sohn". 21 December 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
^ "Hermann Parzinger erhält das Große Verdienstkreuz mit Stern". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
^ "Parzinger erhält Akademie-Preis für Geisteswissenschaften". Die Welt. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2016 – via Welt Online.
^ "Hermann Parzinger". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 28 April 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^ "Italien ehrt Hermann Parzinger – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
^ "Smithsonian – Provenance in the World War II Era, 1933 – 1945". provenance.si.edu. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
^ A-2017-12704 Spanish Official Journal

External links

Media related to Hermann Parzinger at Wikimedia Commons

[Hickley_2016-1] Hickley, Catherine (19 May 2016). "Berlin's lost Renaissance sculptures rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum". theartnewspaper.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2022.

[2] "Board". Europa Nostra. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

[3] "Stadt ist stolz auf ihren erfolgreichen Sohn". 21 December 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2016.

[4] "Hermann Parzinger erhält das Große Verdienstkreuz mit Stern". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.

[5] "Parzinger erhält Akademie-Preis für Geisteswissenschaften". Die Welt. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2016 – via Welt Online.

[American_Academy_of_Arts_&_Sciences_2022-6] "Hermann Parzinger". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 28 April 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.

[7] "Italien ehrt Hermann Parzinger – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.

[8] "Smithsonian – Provenance in the World War II Era, 1933 – 1945". provenance.si.edu. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

[9] A-2017-12704 Spanish Official Journal

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