Friedrich Karl Dörner was a German classics, epigrapher and Classical Archeologist.

Born in 1911 as son of the mining office Karl Dörner and his wife Klara in Gelsenkirchen, he studied at the Universities of Münster

Münster

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

 and Greifswald

Greifswald

Greifswald , officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed...

 under Josef Keil

Josef Keil

Josef Keil was an Austrian historian, epigrapher and an archaeologist.Keil was born in Reichenberg, now Liberec in northern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. He began his career in 1904 as a scientific secretary at the Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Smyrna, now İzmir, Turkey. He...

 Classics, and finished his PhD in 1935. Immediately after that, he was employed by the German Archeological Institute in Berlin and went abroad with the institute's archeological scholarship for 1936/37. 1938–1940, he worked for the DAI in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 as research associate. During this time, he worked at Boğazkale

Bogazkale

Boğazkale is a district of Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is located at 87 km from the city of Çorum. Population of the town is about 1,500. The mayor is Ali Rıza Soysat ....

/Hattuša

Hattusa

Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. It was located near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, within the great loop of the Kızıl River ....

 in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, and also visited Bithynia

Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...

 and the kingdom of Kommagene

Kingdom of Commagene

The Kingdom of Commagene was an ancient kingdom of the Hellenistic Age.Little is known of the region of Commagene prior to the beginning of the 2nd century BC. However, it seems that, from what little evidence remains, Commagene formed part of a larger state that also included Sophene...

 in Asia Minor

Asia Minor

Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

, which from then on formed his major research area.

Reference

40 Jahre Forschungsstelle Asia Minor

Selected publications

• Arsameia am Nymphaios: Die Ausgrabungen im Hierothesion des Mithradates Kallinikos von 1953-1956, mit Theresa Goell. Gebr. Mann, 1963, ISBN 3803017548.
• Der Thron der Götter auf dem Nemrud Dağ. 2. Aufl. Gustav Lübbe, 1987, ISBN 3-7857-0277-9.
• Von Pergamon zum Nemrud Dağ: Die archäologischen Entdeckungen Carl Humanns, mit Eleonore Dörner. P. von Zabern, 1989, ISBN 3805309988

External links

• Homepage der Forschungsstelle Asia Minor der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster

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