Kurt Bittel
Kurt Bittel was a German prehistorian. As president of the German Archaeological Institute 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.
Decorations and awards
;State awards- Order of Merit of the [Federal Republic of Germany|Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- Grand Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Honorary member of the İstanbul Enstitüsü, Turkish Historical Society, Royal Irish Academy, Société de Yougoslavie Archéologique, German-Turkish Association, Society for Pre- and [Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern] , Honorary Member of the German Archaeological Institute
- Honorary Corresponding Member of The Prehistoric Society
- Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Foreign Honorary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America, American [Academy of Arts and Sciences], and the American Philosophical Society.