Marc van de mieroop biography
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Marc Van De Mieroop
Belgian Assyriologist and Egyptologist (born 1956)
Marc Van De Mieroop (born 22 October 1956) is a noted BelgianAssyriologist and Egyptologist who has been full professor of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University since 1996.
Biography
Born in Belgium to a prominent Flemish family who paternally descend from Jan I van Cuijk.
Columbia history
He received his bachelor's degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, later attending Yale University, where he received his master's degree in 1980 and his doctoral degree in 1983. He taught at Yale and Oxford, later becoming a full professor at Columbia in 1996.
Van De Mieroop specializes the history of the Ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander the Great, with a particular interest in the socio-economic and political history of the Ancient Near East.
He has written extensively on historical methodology and was a Senior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwisse
