Alain Schnapp

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Snap at the speech for the 150th anniversary of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Heidelberg in the old auditorium of the university.

Alain Schnapp (born September 18, 1946 in Paris ) is a French classical archaeologist and science historian and was professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne from 1988 until his retirement in 2014 .

Career

After graduating from school, Schnapp studied ancient history , but already turned very strongly to classical archeology during his academic training. Accordingly, in September 1967 he began his final thesis on “Depiction of the hunt in vase painting in ancient Greece”, which was supervised by Pierre Vidal-Naquet and François Villard . He took an active part in the May riots of 1968 , the pamphlets and leaflets of which he then compiled and analyzed together with his academic teacher Vidal-Naquet. This resulted in the book “Journal de la Commune étudiante” (“Diary of the Student Commune ”), published in 1969 , which was also translated into English.

From 1969 he worked as an assistant to Pierre Demargne , the professor of classical archeology at the Sorbonne . During this time, Alain Schnapp was strongly influenced by the Paris Center de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes and the École de Paris that emerged from it . After various positions at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Center national de la recherche scientifique , he completed his habilitation in 1987 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales with a thesis on the representation of the hunt in Greek art.

Alain Schnapp was Professor of Greek Archeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne from 1988 to 2014, where he also headed the Department of Archeology and Art History from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 he tried to establish an art history research center, which had been planned for a long time, and which was established in 2001 as the Institut national d'histoire de l'art . In this context, he was appointed President of the newly founded Association de préfiguration de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art in 1999 , and two years later became the first General Director of the institute created. In 2005 he was temporarily succeeded by Jean-Pierre Cuzin, followed by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain in 2006 . Schnapp was visiting professor or fellow at the Universities of Princeton (1982), Naples (1984), Perugia (1986), Cambridge ( Churchill College , 1989–1990) and Heidelberg (1998), the Getty Research Institute in Santa Monica ( 1996), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2006–2007) and the International College Morphomata (2014–2015). From 2005 to 2006 he was research officer at the Center national de la recherche scientifique, and from 2010 to 2013 director of the Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris .

Alain Schnapp is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and has received the award of the Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques en France . In 2014 he was awarded the Meyer Struckmann Prize for research in the humanities and social sciences from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

research

Schnapp's main research interests in the field of classical studies are iconography and visual studies of ancient Greek art as well as the cultural history of antiquity, especially of the ancient cities and territories. A long-standing subject of investigation was, for example, the pictorial representation of hunting in antiquity, from which both the thesis of the university studies (1967) and his habilitation thesis (1987) grew. In addition, Schnapp deals intensively with the history of archeology as a discipline and its predecessors in the field of antiquarianism . His work “La conquête du passé” (German: “The discovery of the past”), first published in 1993, deals with the perception of history and the development of archaeological interest since the ancient Orient and has been translated into several languages.

Alain Schnapp has also been involved in field research since his studies and was mainly involved in excavations in Italy ( Metapont , Eboli , Moio della Civitella , Laos ). Later, however, he also turned to the archeology of Crete and in 1994 founded the excavations of the French School of Athens in Itanos, which are still ongoing today . At the same time, he is leading a research project on the history of this city and its territory.

Publications

  • with Pierre Vidal-Naquet : Journal de la commune étudiante. Textes et documents. November 1967 - June 1968. Editions du Seuil, Paris 1969. New edition, ibid. 1988, ISBN 2-020-10158-0 .
    • English translation: The French Student Uprising. November 1967-June 1968. An analytical record. Beacon Press, Boston 1971.
  • as editor: L'archéologie aujourd'hui. Hachette, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-01-006063-6 .
  • as ed. with Gilles Gaucher: Archeology. Pouvoir et société. Éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-222-03573-2 .
  • La duplicité du chasseur. Comportement juvénile et pratique cynégétique en Grèce ancienne aux époques archaïques et classiques. Habilitation thesis, 3 volumes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1987.
  • as ed. with Emanuele Greco and Silvana Luppino: Laos I, Scavi a Marcellina 1973–1985 (= Magna Graecia. Volume 5). Istituto per la storia e l'archeologia della Magna Grecia, Taranto 1989.
  • La conquête du passé. Aux origines de l'archéologie. Editions Carré, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-908393-17-4 . New edition 1998.
    • German translation: The discovery of the past. Origins and adventures of archeology. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-93359-8 . 3rd edition, ibid 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94697-0 .
    • Italian translation: La conquista del passato, alle origini dell'archeologia. Leonardo, Milan 1994, ISBN 8-804-39134-0 .
    • English translation: The Discovery of the Past. British Museum Press / Abrams, London / New York 1996, ISBN 0-810-93233-4 .
  • as ed. with Andreas E. Furtwängler and Thanassis Kalpaxis: Eleftherna , Volume 2: Une maison hellénistique au lieu-dit Nisi. University of Crete, Rethymno 1994.
  • Le chasseur et la cité. Chasse et érotique en Grèce ancienne. Albin Michel, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-226-06475-3 .
  • with others: Préhistoire et antiquité. Des origines de l'humanité au monde classique ( Histoire de l'art Flammarion ). Flammarion, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-080-12179-0 . New edition, ibid 2011, ISBN 978-2-081-24425-2 .
  • as ed. with François Hartog and Pauline Schmitt: Pierre Vidal-Naquet, un historien dans la cité ( Textes à l'appui. Série Histoire contemporaine ). La Découverte, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-707-12909-7 .
  • with Jean-Paul Demoule, François Giligny and Anne Lehoerff: Guide des méthodes de l'archéologie. La Découverte, Paris 2002, ISBN 978-2-7071-4204-7 . 3rd edition, ibid 2009, ISBN 978-2-707-15825-3 .
  • with François Lebrette: L'histoire ancienne à travers 100 chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture. Presses de la Renaissance, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-856-16933-3 .
  • with Irène Aghion, Mathilde Avisseau-Broustet and Dominique Morelon: Histoires d'archéologie. Exposition synthèse de la part INHA du projet AREA. Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-91790-201-1 .
  • as ed. with Lothar von Falkenhausen and Peter N. Miller: World Antiquarianism. Comparative Perspectives. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 2013, ISBN 978-1-60606-148-0 .
  • What is a ruin? Draft of a comparative perspective (= historical humanities. Volume 7). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1569-3 .

Web links

literature

  • Bruno Bleckmann (ed.): Classical Archeology, Meyer Struckmann Prize 2014: Alain Schnapp (= speeches on the awarding of the Meyer Struckmann Prize by the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Volume 9). Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-95758-010-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alain Schnapp: Acknowledgments. In: Bruno Bleckmann (ed.): Classical Archeology, Meyer Struckmann Prize 2014: Alain Schnapp. Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-95758-010-8 , pp. 25–31, here p. 27.
  2. ↑ Chiffres et dates clés. inha.fr, accessed December 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Histoire de l'archéologie avec Alain Schnapp. In: La Fabrique de l'Histoire of July 7, 2008, accessed on November 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ La prospection d'Itanos. prospection-itanos.efa.gr, accessed December 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Snap, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris