Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar · Archaeologist

Immanuel Benzinger

1865–1935 · Germany

Protestant theologian. Excavated at Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim). Wrote with Albert Socin.

Life and work

  1. by 1899
    His 'Hebräische Archäologie' (fig. 125) is cited in the Cyprus Museum catalogue for a bowl wrongly taken as a lamp

    Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899, p. 56

  2. 1903
    Replaced Gottlieb Schumacher as director of the Deutscher Palästina-Verein excavations at Tell el-Mutesellim/Megiddo, publishing a preliminary report

    MegiddoMeyers 1997

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
  2. 2.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
  3. 3.K. Baedeker, A. Socin, I. Benzinger, J. P. Peters (1912). Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and the Island of Cyprus. Karl Baedeker.