Name Stefan Weber Role Orientalist | ||
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Education Free University of Berlin | ||
Stefan weber amadeus 2005 fur sein lebenswerk
Stefan Weber (October 17, 1967, in Aachen) is a German Orientalist and director of the Museum of Islamic Art (Museum für Islamische Kunst) at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. Previously, he was assistant professor of material history at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of Aga Khan University in London.
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- Stefan weber amadeus 2005 fur sein lebenswerk
- Stefan weber zu gast in phettbergs nette leit show
- Career
- Publications
- References
Stefan weber zu gast in phettbergs nette leit show
Career
Weber matriculated in Islamic studies (Arabic, Persian, Turkish and History of Islamic art) at Bonn University in 1990 and finished as Magister in 1996. After university he worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Damascus. In 2001 he received a doctorate from the University of Berlin and moved to Beirut as staff member of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society).
In 2007 he became assistant professor of material history at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of Aga Khan University in London. In July 2008 he was appointed as director of the Pergamon Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and holds this position since spring 2009.
Stefan Weber chaired several international and interdisciplinary projects. He specialized in architectural history of Syria in Ottoman times.