Andreas Schmidt-Colinet

Andreas Schmidt-Colinet (born July 25, 1945 in Gronau (Leine) ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Andreas Schmidt-Colinet studied classical archeology, prehistory and early history from 1967 to 1974. In 1974 he received his doctorate in Cologne in Classical Archeology with Heinz Kähler on ancient supporting figures . From 1975 to 1980 Schmidt-Colinet worked as an assistant at the University of Frankfurt . In 1975/76 he had a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1980 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the department of the German Archaeological Institute in Damascus . From 1981 he took over the management of the Palmyra project . From 1984 to 1992 he worked as a senior assistant at the University of Bern . In 1990 he completed his habilitation with the contribution of studies on Palmyrenean tomb architecture and its furnishings . From 1992 to 1996, Schmidt-Colinet held visiting professorships in Vienna, Paris, Besançon, Warsaw, Mainz and Neuchâtel. From 2000 to 2010 he taught as Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna, succeeding Friedrich Krinzinger . His successor was Günther Schörner in September 2011 .

Schmidt-Colinet's main research interests include Hellenistic-Roman art and architecture in the Middle East, Nabataean rock architecture, and excavations and research in Palmyra. He is a member of the German Archaeological Association (since 1974), the Mommsen Society (since 1990), a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 1993) and a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (since 1998).

Fonts

Monographs

• with Ulrike Hess: The Nymphaeum of Apamea in Syria (= Fouilles d'Apamée de Syrie. Vol. 4). Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels 2016, ISBN 978-2-803-10442-0 .
• with Georg A. Plattner: Ancient architecture and building ornamentation. Basic forms and basic terms (= UTB. Vol. 8288). WUV, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8252-8288-0 .
• with Annemarie Stauffer and Khaled al-Asʿad: The textiles from Palmyra. New and old finds (= Damascus research. Vol. 8). von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2592-4 .
• Temple tomb No. 36 in Palmyra. Studies on Palmyrenean tomb architecture and its furnishings (= Damascene research. Vol. 4). 2 volumes. von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1313-6 (also: Bern, University, habilitation paper, 1990).
• Antique supporting figures. Investigations into the type and significance of the human-shaped architectural support in Greek and Roman art. Wasmuth, Berlin 1977, (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 1974/1975).

Editorships

• Palmyra. Cultural encounter in the border area (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . Vol. 27). von Zabern, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-8053-1779-4 (3rd, expanded and modified edition, ibid 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3557-1 ).
• Local identities in peripheral areas of the Roman Empire. Files from the international symposium in Wiener Neustadt, 24. – 26. April 2003 (= Viennese research on archeology. Vol. 7). Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901232-54-0 .

literature

• Beatrix Bastl, Verena Gassner, Ulrike Muss (eds.): Time travel. Syria - Palmyra - Rome. Festschrift for Andreas Schmidt-Colinet on his 65th birthday. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85161-038-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Schmidt-Colinet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site by Andreas Schmidt-Colinet at the University of Vienna