Prestigious Travel Scholarship awarded to Max Johann Beiersdorf

Since 1859, the prestigious DAI scholarships have been used to support young scholars in archaeology and related disciplines. Through extended stays in countries with cultural heritage of antiquity, scholarship recipients are expected to gain a good knowledge of these places, and especially their archaeological monuments and historical sites. The scholarship recipient is endowed with € 1,417 per month.

Max Johann Beiersdorf has been a research associate at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and Ph.D. student at the DFG Research Training Group ‘Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings’ since 1 April 2014 with a research project on the mud brick walls of Egypt's pharaohs. Other fields of research are the Islamic architecture of power as well as the Late Bronze Age and Phoenician architecture of southern Spain.