Heidemarie Koch

Subsequently, she worked as a teacher in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, until 1972.

The topic of her dissertation under Walther Hinz was the religious conditions under Darius I, based on Elamite tablets of Persepolis ("Die religiösen Verhältnisse der Dareioszeit.

In 1986, at the University of Marburg, she worked on the topics of labour administration and the economy in the Persian heartland at the time of the Achaemenids, and taught as a lecturer.

She focused on cultural and economic history, management and religion, utilising both written sources and the archaeological remains.

A second research focus was the exploration of Elam and its neighboring regions, especially in terms of the influences that they exerted on the subsequent Persian Empire.