Ricardo Eichmann
German archaeologist (born 1955)
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Ricardo Francisco Eichmann (born November 2, 1955) is an Argentine-born German archaeologist. He was the director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute between 1996 and 2020 and previously a professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen.
November 2, 1955
Ricardo Eichmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ricardo Francisco Eichmann November 2, 1955 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent | Adolf Eichmann (father) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Near Eastern archaeology |
| Institutions | University of Tübingen German Archaeological Institute |
Early life
Ricardo Francisco Eichmann was born on November 2, 1955, in Buenos Aires.[1][2] He is the youngest son of Adolf Eichmann and Vera Eichmann (née Liebl).[3][4] He has three older brothers.[5] Eichmann was five years old when his father was captured and taken from Argentina to Israel by Mossad.[6] As a teenager, Eichmann learned of his father's history from books. He rejected the Nazi ideology of his father and accepted that his execution was justified.[5]
From 1977, Eichmann studied prehistory and protohistory, classical archaeology and Egyptology at Heidelberg University. His 1984 dissertation was titled Prehistoric Aspects of Floor Plans in the Middle East.[7]
Academic career
Eichmann is an archaeologist. From 1984 to 1994, he worked first as a scientific consultant and later as a research assistant in the Baghdad department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.[8] Eichmann was then briefly Professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen from 1995 to 1996.[3] From 1996 to 2019 he was the first director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, being succeeded by Margarete van Ess in 2020.[9] His research interests include music archaeology in the Near East and Egypt.[10]
Personal life
In 1995, he met Zvi Aharoni, the Mossad agent who was chiefly responsible for his father's capture.[6] Eichmann declines most requests for interviews. He has two sons.[5]
Selected works
- Eichmann, Ricardo; Schaudig, Hanspeter; Hausleiter, Arnulf (November 2006). "Archaeology and epigraphy at Tayma (Saudi Arabia)". Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. 17 (2): 163–176. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0471.2006.00269.x. ISSN 0905-7196.
- Eichmann, Ricardo (2007). Uruk: Architektur. Von den Anfängen bis zur frühdynastischen Zeit (in German). Verlag Marie Leidorf. ISBN 978-3-89646-036-3.
- Eichmann, Ricardo; Koch, Lars-Christian, eds. (2015). Musikarchäologie: Klänge der Vergangenheit (in German). Theiss. ISBN 978-3-8062-3007-9.