Career
As president of the German Archaeological Institute (Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts - DAI) and excavator of the Hittite city of Hattusha in Turkey, as well as an expert on the Celts in Central Europe, he acquired great merit.
archaeologist university professor
As president of the German Archaeological Institute (Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts - DAI) and excavator of the Hittite city of Hattusha in Turkey, as well as an expert on the Celts in Central Europe, he acquired great merit.
German Archaeological Institute. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.
Austrian Archaeological Institute. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Royal Irish Academy. Society of Antiquaries of London]
Honorary member of the İstanbul Enstitüsü (1955), Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu.
Ankara, 1959), Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, 1965), Société de Yougoslavie Archéologique (Arheološko Društvo Jugoslavije, Belgrade, 1966), German-Turkish Association (Bonn, 1970), Society for Preand Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern (Gesellschaft für Archäologie in Württemberg und Hohenzollern) (1977), Honorary Member of the German Archaeological Institute (1982)
Honorary Corresponding Member of The Prehistoric Society (Oxford, 1956).