Achim worker

Achim Arbeiter (born September 3, 1958 in Dierdorf ) is a German Christian archaeologist . His research area is the late antique, early Christian and early medieval art of the Iberian Peninsula .

Life

Achim Arbeiter grew up near Celle and graduated from the Ernestinum Celle in 1977 . From 1977 to 1979 he studied art history , medieval and modern history as well as ethnology at the University of Mainz and from 1979 to 1983 at the University of Hamburg . In 1983 he started working for Alt-St. Peter is doing his doctorate in Rome . In the following years he was at the Madrid Department of the German Archaeological Institutebusy, but the work there was interrupted several times by other activities. Most recently Arbeiter was a consultant for early Christian archeology there. In 1990 he spent six months at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute , where he researched the mosaics of S. Costanza . In 1990/91 he was the holder of the DAI travel grant . In 1996 he moved to Saarbrücken, where he was teaching at Saarland University . Workers habilitated in 1997 with the work of the mosaics of S. Costanza in Rome at Beat Brenk at the University of Basel . This work was published together with the historical study of the building by Jürgen J. Rasch in 2007. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History at the University of Göttingen .

The married father of two children was chairman of the Christian Archeology Working Group for the study of late antique, early medieval and Byzantine culture from 2004 to 2008 . Arbeiter is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Fonts

• Alt-St. Peter in History and Science. Sequence of buildings, reconstruction, architecture program. Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7861-1410-2 .
• Helmut Schlunk : The mosaic dome of Centcelles . Edited from the estate for printing and annotated by Achim Arbeiter (= Madrid Contributions Volume 13). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0921-X .
• with Hermanfrid Schubart and Sabine Noack-Haley (eds.): Finds in Portugal (= great moments in archeology, volume 12). Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7881-1512-2 .
• with Sabine Noack-Haley: Hispania antiqua. Christian monuments of the early Middle Ages from the 8th to the 11th centuries. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2312-3 .
• with Jürgen J. Rasch : The mausoleum of Constantina in Rome (= Late Antique Central Buildings in Rome and Latium , Volume 4). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3514-0 .
• with Christiane Kothe and Bettina Marten (eds.): Hispania's north in the 11th century. Christian art in upheaval. International Conference, Göttingen, February 27-29, 2004. Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-509-4 .
• with Dieter Korol (ed.): The dome of Centcelles. New research on a world-class enigmatic monument. International conference of the German Archaeological Institute at the Goethe-Institut Madrid (November 22-24, 2010) (= Iberia archaeologica Volume 21). Wasmuth, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8030-0242-6 .

Web links

• Website from Achim Arbeiter at the University of Göttingen
• List of publications
• Literature by and about Achim Arbeiter in the catalog of the German National Library