Hermann Parzinger

Hermann Parzinger is a German historian who is a specialist in the culture of the Scythians. He has been president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation between 1 March 2008 and 27 May 2025 and the Executive President of Europa Nostra since 2018.

Honours and awards

Since 1996 honorary professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Freie Universität Berlin
1998 Leibniz Prize.
Numerous scientific honors, including the honorary doctorates of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and honorary diplomas of the Republic of Tuva and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
Honorary member of the Archaeological Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Iasi.
In 2008, Parzinger was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Germering.
On November 4, 2009, Parzinger was awarded the Order of Friendship, the highest Russian award for foreign citizens. He was also awarded in the German-Russian scientific and cultural relations that lead him for decades regularly to Russia for his outstanding scientific achievements and its multiple commitments.
2011 awarded the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences Hermann Parzinger the of the city of Pforzheim. The Heidelberg Academy justified this choice, among other things, that Parzinger have opened up with his time and transnational approach to research new territory for archeology and strengthened the importance of the humanities in the public consciousness.
On 29 May 2011, the Chapter of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts added Parzinger to its domestic members.
On 4 October 2012, Parzinger received Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2013, Parzinger of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz the first ever Kalkhof-Rose Academy Award.
2013 Parzinger was a member of the American Philosophical Society elected, the oldest learned society of the United States. Thus, the company pays a special tribute that he initiated in cooperation with Russian archaeologists and his extensive publication record and his outstanding work as a cultural manager.
2014 he was elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On 14 September 2015, Parzinger was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Award.
2016 Parzinger was named co-chair of the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals for 2017–2019 which aims to educate provenance researchers through exchanges, workshops and tours.
3 November 2017, Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise

Selected publications

Chronologie der Späthallstatt- und Frühlatene-Zeit. Studien zu Fundgruppen zwischen Mosel und Save. Weinheim 1988.

mit Rosa Sanz: Die Oberstadt von Hattuşa. Hethitische Keramik aus dem zentralen Tempelviertel. Funde aus den Grabungen 1982–1987. Berlin 1992. Studien zur Chronologie und Kulturgeschichte der Jungstein-, Kupfer- und Frühbronzezeit zwischen Karpaten und Mittlerem Taurus. Zabern, Mainz 1993. Der Goldberg. Die Metallzeitliche Besiedlung. Zabern, Mainz 1998.
mit Rosa Sanz: Das Castro von Soto de Bureba. Archäologische und historische Forschungen zur Bureba in vorrömischer und römischer Zeit. Rahden/Westf. 2000..
mit Viktor Zajbert, Anatoli Nagler, Alexander Plesakov: Der große Kurgan von Bajkara. Studien zu einem skythischen Heiligtum. Zabern, Mainz 2003.
mit Necmi Karul, Zeynep Eres, Mehmet Özdoğan: Aşağı Pınar I. Zabern, Mainz 2003.
mit Nikolaus Boroffka: Das Zinn der Bronzezeit in Mittelasien I. Die siedlungsarchäologischen Forschungen im Umfeld der Zinnlagerstätten , Zabern, Mainz 2003, ; ausführliche Rezension von Sören Stark in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Band 105, 2010, Heft 1, S. 97–104.Die Skythen. Beck'sche Reihe 2342, München 2004..
mit Heiner Schwarzberg: Aşağı Pınar II. Die mittel- und spätneolithische Keramik. Zabern, Mainz 2005. Die frühen Völker Eurasiens. Vom Neolithikum zum Mittelalter. Verlag C.H. Beck, München 2006..
mit Wilfried Menghin, Manfred Nawroth und Anatoli Nagler : Im Zeichen des Goldenen Greifen. Königsgräber der Skythen. Prestel Verlag, München 2007.
mit Konstantin V. Tschugunov und Anatoli Nagler: Der Goldschatz von Arschan. Schirmer/Mosel, München 2006..Gero von Merhart, Daljóko. Bilder aus sibirischen Arbeitstagen. Böhlau-Verlag, Wien, Köln, Weimar 2009.
mit Thomas Flierl : Humboldt-Forum Berlin. Das Projekt. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009.
mit Konstantin V. Tschugunov und Anatoli Nagler: Der skythenzeitliche Fürstenkurgan von Arschan 2 in Tuva. Zabern, Mainz 2010. Die Kinder des Prometheus. Eine Geschichte der Menschheit vor der Erfindung der Schrift. 848 S. mit 110 Abbildungen und 19 Karten, größtenteils farbig. C. H. Beck Verlag München 2015, 4. Aufl. 2015.