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Nikolai Grube is a German epigrapher.〔Coe 1992, 1994, p.236.〕 He was born in Bonn in 1962.〔Houston et al 2001, p.486.〕 Grube entered the University of Hamburg in 1982 and graduated in 1985.〔 His doctoral thesis was published at the same university in 1990.〔 After he received his doctorate, Grube moved to the University of Bonn.〔Interdisciplinary Latin America Center at the University of Bonn (1) n.d.〕 Nikolai Grube has been heavily involved in the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphic script.〔Coe 1992, 1994, p.236. Houston et al 2001, p.486.〕 == Biography == He has served as professor of anthropology and art history at both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Bonn.〔, inside back cover.〕 At the University of Bonn he has worked in the Seminar for Ethnology.〔 He has worked with several archaeological projects in the Maya region, including those at Caracol in Belize and Yaxha in the Petén Department of Guatemala.〔 He has also occupied a position at the University of Hamburg.〔 He is fluent in the Yucatec language of the modern Maya inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.〔Coe 1992, 1994, p.228.〕 Nikolai Grube worked with Linda Schele in presenting hieroglyphic workshops for native Mayan speakers in Mexico and Guatemala.〔Martin 1998.〕 In the 1990s he visited Naachtun in Petén and recorded the inscriptions on the Maya stelae.〔Reese-Taylor, 15 October 2010.〕 He is credited with deciphering the ancient name of the kingdom from the hieroglyphic inscription on Stela 1 at the city.〔 Grube, together with fellow epigrapher Simon Martin, proposed that Maya politics of the Classic Period were dominated by two so-called "superstates" ruled by the rival cities of Tikal and Calakmul.〔Webster 2002, p.168.〕 From 1992 to 1995 Grube received funding from ''Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft'' ("German Research Foundation") for a project investigating the oral traditions of the Cruzoob Maya of Mexico.〔 In 2010 Nikolai Grube served as one of the directors of the Interdisciplinary Latin America Center at the University of Bonn.〔Interdisciplinary Latin America Center at the University of Bonn (2) n.d.〕 Nikolai Grube is co-editor of the ''Mexicon'' journal and is a consultant for the Mexican magazine ''Arqueología Mexicana'' ("Mexican Archaeology").〔 Since 2014 Nikolai Grube is directing the project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan, which has a projected run-time of fifteen years.〔() ''Project information on the website of the Department of Anthropology of the Americas, University of Bonn.'' Accessed on March 31, 2015.〕 It is housed in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn and was established with funding from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.〔() ''Project information on the website of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Accessed on March 31, 2015〕 The goal of the project is to conduct computer-based studies of all extant Maya hieroglyphic texts from an epigraphic and cultural-historical standpoint, and to produce and publish a database and a comprehensive dictionary of the Classic Mayan language. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikolai Grube」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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