- Stefan Heidemann
Stefan Heidemann (born 1961) is a German
orientalist at theUniversity of Jena Biography
Islamic studies and economics in Regensburg, Berlin, Damascus and Cairo 1982-1993; PhD in Islamic studies 1993 at
Free University Berlin ; Graduate seminar of theAmerican Numismatic Society New York, 1993; Research Assistant 1994-2001 at Jena University; Habilitation 2001 at Jena University; visiting Professor 2001-2003 at Leipzig University; Senior Research Assistant 2002-2004 at Jena University; currently Hochschuldozent (C2 professorship) at Jena University.Main Areas of Research
Political and economic history of the Islamic World from
Mongolia to northern Africa as well as current economic and development affairs. Historical studies focus in their majority the Syrian and northern Mesopotamian region from the 7th to the 16th century.Co-operation with archaeological missions especially inSyria . Co-ordination of the 'Oriental Coin Cabinet' and the 'Alphons-Stübel Collection of Middle Eastern Photographs (1850-1890)' at Jena University.Awards
2005
Samir-Shamma-Prize of theRoyal Numismatic Society , London.Publications
Publications on development policy, medieval Islamic history, history of Middle Eastern studies, Islamic numismatics and archaeology.
* Das Aleppiner Kalifat (A.D. 1261). Vom Untergang des Kalifates in Bagdad über Aleppo zu den Restaurationen in Kairo (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 6), Leiden 1994.
* Islamische Numismatik in Deutschland (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 2), Wiesbaden 2000. (as editor and major contributor)
* Die Renaissance der Städte. Städtische Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Bedingungen in ar-Raqqa und Harran von der Zeit der beduinischen Vorherrschaft bis zu den Seldschuken (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 40), Leiden 2002.
* with Andrea Becker, Raqqa II - Die islamische Stadt, Mainz 2003. (as editor and major contributor)Sources
*Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 2005, ed. Bettina Bartz, Axel Schniederjürgen, Marko Schweizer, 20th ed. Munich (Saur) 2005.
*Concise biographical companion to Index Islamicus : an international who's who in Islamic studies from its beginnings down to the twentieth century; bio-bibliographical supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980 (Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik, Sect. 1: The Near and Middle East, vol. 76), ed. by Wolfgang Behn, Leiden (Brill) 2006.
External links
* [http://www.uni-jena.de/Stefan_Heidemann.html Bibliography of S.H.]
* [http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/profile?person=HeidemannStefan Bio at Blackwell Publisher]
* [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/LNG=DU/LRSET=1/SET=1/SID=c1b3dc95-5e/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8500&SRT=YOP&TRM=Heidemann%2C+Stefan Literature from and about S.H. in the German National Library]
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