Machteld Mellink

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Machteld Johanna Mellink (October 26, 1917,

Near Eastern cultures and history.[1]

Biography

Mellink received her undergraduate training at the University of Amsterdam and her doctorate from Utrecht in 1943. Mellink moved to

Early Bronze Age remains and tombs.[5]

Mellink was professor emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at

Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1991. The Ministry of Culture of Turkey recognized her as the Senior American Excavator in 1984 and the Senior Foreign Archaeologist in 1985. In 2001, the Archaeological Institute of America established in her honor the Machteld Mellink Lecture in Near Eastern Archaeology. Bryn Mawr College awarded her the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1975.[6]

Among the scholars she mentored was the archaeologist Theresa Howard Carter, who wrote her PhD dissertation on Kassite history and archaeology under Mellink's supervision.[7]

She was a Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Research Associate of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and a Corresponding Member of the Turkish Institute of History, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1961,[8] the German Archaeological Institute, and the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and many other international archaeological societies.[9]

Her professional service included being President of the American Research Institute in Turkey from 1988 to 1991, President of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1980 to 1984, Trustee of the American Society of Oriental Research, Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College from 1955 to 1983, and Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Bryn Mawr College from 1979 to 1980.[10]

Necrology

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Machteld J. Mellink, 88, Archaeologist, Dies" New York Times March 6, 2006
  2. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  3. ^ "Machteld Mellink, Pioneer of Turkish Archaeology and Defender of Cultural Heritage, Dies at 88". Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter M" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  5. ^ "Machteld Mellink, Pioneer of Turkish Archaeology and Defender of Cultural Heritage, Dies at 88". Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Machteld Mellink, Pioneer of Turkish Archaeology and Defender of Cultural Heritage, Dies at 88". Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  7. ^ Carter, Theresa Howard (1962). Studies in Kassite History and Archaeology. PhD dissertation, Bryn Mawr College.
  8. ^ "Machteld Johanna Mellink mw. (1917 - 2006)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Machteld Mellink, Pioneer of Turkish Archaeology and Defender of Cultural Heritage, Dies at 88". Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  10. ^ "Machteld Mellink, Pioneer of Turkish Archaeology and Defender of Cultural Heritage, Dies at 88". Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.

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