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Markus Ritter | Agnes Korn |

Award-winners 2007

Markus Ritter

by Mosques and Madrases in Iran 1785-1848: architecture between re-adaptation and innovation (German, English Summary), Leiden: Brill 2005

Markus Ritter is a Historian of Islamic Art working at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna. He has taught at different Universities in Germany and Austria. He is co-founder and vice-president of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology.

His research interests include the late medieval and early modern periods of Islamic art in Iran, in particular architecture and wall painting, and medieval Arab art in the Near East.

After studying at the University of Bamberg/Germany, the American University in Cairo/Egypt, and the State University of Tehran/Iran, Ritter received his PhD (Dr. phil.) in the discipline of Islamic Art History and Archaeology at Bamberg in 2003. Further disciplines included Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Turkology, Architectural History. He also holds an MA in Islamic Studies.

Ritter published the first scholarly monograph on Qajar architecture, Mosques and Madrases in Iran 1785-1848: architecture between re-adaptation and innovation (German, English Summary), Leiden: Brill 2005 (Islamic History and Civilization; 62). He is the main editor of the collective volume, Iran and Iranianate Cultures (Festschrift Bert G. Fragner), Wiesbaden: Reichert 2008 (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 27). A forthcoming book deals with the architectural decoration of the Arab palace Khirbat al-Minya at Lake Tiberias in Umayyad Palestine.

The book on Iranian architecture won the SIE-award in 2007; the manuscript of the thesis, on which it was based, the “First Prize of Annual Cultural Research” by the State President of the Islamic republic of Iran (Muhammad Khatami) in 2004.

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The award-winning book at the publisher

At Google Scholar

More detailed CV of Markus Ritter: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/ritter_cv.htm

Institute of Iranian Studies at Vienna: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/

Agnes Korn

by Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary [Beiträge zur Iranistik 26] Wiesbaden (Reichert) 2005

Studium der Indogermanistik in Hamburg und Wien (Mag.a phil. 1996), 1995/96 Lektorin für Deutsch in Banská Bystrica (Slowakei), 1996-98 Mitarbeiterin an einem Wörterbuchprojekt in Graz, Promotionsstudium in Vergleichender Sprachwissenschaft in Frankfurt a. M. (Dr. phil. 2003), seit Mai 1998 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bzw. Assistentin am Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft usw. in Frankfurt a. M. 2007 European Award of Iranian Studies der Societas Iranologica Europaea für die Doktorarbeit 2008 Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science der Minerva-Stiftung

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Agnes Korn in TITUS

New edition of the award

The Societas Iranologica Europaea invites applications for the "European Award of Iranian Studies".  We look for outstanding theses defended in European universities by young scholars. Our aim is to promote in Europe scientific research in the field of Iranian student. 

Eligibility

Candidates should have discussed their Ph.D. after February 2007 in a European university (including Russia) and be under the age of 35 years at the day of the presentation of the PhD. The thesis can be published or unpublished.

The prize will be awarded at the Conference of S.I.E. that should takes place in September 2011 in Cracow (Poland). The amount of the prize is 2000 €.

Application

Candidates should send a copy of his/her Ph.D. to the following address:

Prof. Dr. Claus V. Pedersen 
Københavns Universitet
Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet
for nærorientalske Studier
Snorresgade 17-19
DK-2300 København S

The deadline is 31.03.2011

Scientific committee

The memebers of the scientific committee are the members of the board of SIE.