CALMEYER, Peter. Halle 5.9.1930 — Berlin 22.11.1995. German Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), an attorney-at-law, and his wife Ruth, from 1932 grew up in Osnabrück. After matriculation from Osnabrück studied from 1950 classical archaeology at Münster and Munich, 1954-55 in Copenhagen, from 1955 Near Eastern archaeology at F.U.Berlin (Altheim). Ph.D. 1965. Then at Munich: 1965 Assistant, 1968 PD. From 1973-79 Deputy Director of Tehran Branch of German Archaeological Institute, until it was closed after the Islamic revolution. He knew Pahlavi and Persian. Died two months after retirement. Married with Ursula Seidl (b. 1939), a Near-Eastern archaeologist.
Publications: Diss. publ. Datierbare Bronzen aus Luristan und Kirmanshah. Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 5. B. 1969.
– “Madjdabad. Zur Datierung von Steinbruch-Arbeiten um Persepolis”, AMI 23, 1990, 85-190.
– Articles on ancient Iranian art (including the series “Zur Genese altiranischer Motive”, 1-11 in AMI 1973-92), also in Encyclop. Iranica, reviews.
Sources: *R. Boucharlat, Studia Iranica 26, 1997, 119-121; *D.-O. Edzard, Z. f̈ür Assyriologie 86, 1996, 161f.; W. Kleiss & A. Shapur Shahbazi, Encyclop. Iranica 2005 (online 2003); *bibliography by U. Seidl, AMI 28, 1995, 3-10; German Wikipedia.
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