Nicholas Postgate (academic)

(John) Nicholas Postgate, FBA (born 5 November 1945)[1] is a British academic and Assyriologist. He is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]

Early life

Postgate was born on 5 November 1945.[2] He was educated at Winchester College, a boys public school in Winchester, Hampshire, between 1959 and 1963.[2][3] He was a Collegeman, meaning he was a recipient of a scholarship.[3] He is a member of the Postgate family.

Academic career

Postgate began his academic career as an assistant lecturer in Akkadian at the SOAS, University of London from 1967 to 1971.[4] He then returned to the University of Cambridge, his alma mater, as a fellow of Trinity College from 1970 to 1974.[2] From 1972 to 1975, he was also deputy-director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. He was promoted in 1975, and served in the full-time role of Director from 1975 to 1981.[2]

In 1982, he returned to the University of Cambridge and once more became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[5] From 1982 to 1985, he was a university lecturer in the history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East.[2] He was promoted to Reader in Mesopotamian studies in 1985.[2] He was promoted to Professor of Assyriology in 1994.[4]

He undertook excavations at Abu Salabikh, a Sumerian city in Iraq, from 1975 to 1989. From 1994 to 2013, he was the director of excavations at Kilise Tepe, a Bronze and Iron Age site in Turkey.[6]

Honours

Postgate was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1993.[4]

References

  1. ↑ POSTGATE, Prof. (John) Nicholas. Who's Who 2014 (online edition via Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "(John) Nicholas POSTGATE". People of Today. Debrett's. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ad Portas" (pdf). Winchester College. 14 May 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "POSTGATE, Professor Nicholas". British Academy Fellows. The British Academy. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Trinity Annual Record 2013" (pdf). Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Teaching & Research Staff". Division of Archaeology. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 26 February 2014.