- Albert Glock
Albert E. Glock (
September 14 1925 inGifford, Idaho -January 19 1992 inWest Bank ) was an Americanarchaeologist working inPalestine , where he was murdered.Glock's parents were deeply religious Lutherans of German ancestry living in
Illinois . Albert Glock studied at several universities, graduating in 1951 atConcordia Seminary and receiving Master's degree from theLutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 1963.Glock, as a Luteran missionary, came to Palestine in 1962 to work on excavations of
Ta'anach , an ancientCanaan ite city. He had spent 17 years inJerusalem and theWest Bank , first as a director of the Albright Institute for Archaeology and then as head of the archaeology department ofBirzeit University , where he helped to found the Archaeology Institute.On
January 19 1992 Glock was shot when going to work. Neither reason for the murder nor who did it was reliably identified.Ses notes ethno-archéologiques sur les potiers et potières palestiniens contemporains furent données par sa veuve au Dr. Brigitte Porêe, France.
References
* Edward Fox: "Palestine Twilight: the murder of Dr Albert Glock and the archaeology of the Holy Land", Harper Collins, 2001 and 2002, ISBN 0-00-638459-5. In the USA reprinted under name "Sacred Geography: A tale of murder and archaeology in the Holy Land".
External links
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,499213,00.html Extract from the Fox's book, details and speculations about Glock's death]
* [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:rvX2E50EODcJ:www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml%3FitemNo%3D120951%26contrassID%3D2%E2%8A%82ContrassID%3D14%26sbSubContrassID%3D0%26listSrc%3DY Article with biographical data]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DB1F3BF932A15752C0A964958260&scp=1&sq=Albert+Glock&st=nyt Teacher From U.S. Is Slain Near West Bank University]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEEDE1130F932A25752C1A9679C8B63&scp=2&sq=Albert+Glock&st=nyt BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION :Sacred Geography - A Tale of Murder and Archeology in the Holy Land]
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/200108060030 Who killed Dr Glock? "Archaeology is not a science, it is a vendetta."]
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