Klaus Schmidt

Klaus Schmidt (11 December 1953, Feuchtwangen – 20 July 2014) was a German prehistorian. He directed the Göbekli TepeGöbekli TepeA Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey, known for communal buildings and T-shaped pillars; the excavation team describes a settlement with a pronounced ritual component.Glossary · Click to read the explanation excavations from 1995, worked at the German Archaeological Institute from 2001, and became an adjunct professor at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 2007.

These studies connect him with the renewed recognition of the site in 1994 and the start of excavation in 1995. His name appears with Oliver Dietrich’s on the pillar-imagery volume published in 2026, after his death. ^[3]

The photograph shows him at the Monumento fair in Salzburg on 16 January 2014, not at the excavation. ^{[1] [2]}