Angelika Geyer

Angelika Geyer (born February 8, 1948 in Werneck ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Angelika Geyer passed her Abitur at the Olympia-Morata-Schule in Schweinfurt in July 1967 and in the same year began studying Latin studies , older and newer German studies and classical archeology at the University of Würzburg . Her teachers there included Carl Joachim Classen , Ernst Siegmann and Erika Simon . In the spring of 1973 she passed the academic examination for teaching at grammar schools in Latin and German studies. This was followed by the work on her dissertation in classical archeology, supported by a graduate scholarship . This was entitled On the Problem of Reality in Dionysian Art of the Roman Empire . That is why she stayed in Rome for two study visits between 1974 and 1976 . He received his doctorate on February 17, 1976 at the University of Würzburg in the subject of Classical Archeology and the minor subjects Latin and Modern German Literature . The dissertation received the dissertation award of the board of trustees of the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science . From March 1976 to September 1977 he worked as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute, Rome department , where Geyer contributed to the bibliography of the Byzantine Journal and wrote numerous short reviews . In 1977/78 she traveled to Northern Italy , Greece , Egypt , Syria , Jordan , Israel , Turkey and Sicily as a travel grant holder of the German Archaeological Institute . Between November 1978 and April 1980 Geyer was again a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute, Rome department, where she worked on the second volume of the repertory of the Christian ancient sarcophagi.

In November 1980 Geyer became a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology and Archeology at the University of Regensburg , from 1981 to 1987 she was a temporary academic advisor . In February 1988 she completed her habilitation in Classical Archeology in Regensburg and became senior academic in mid-1988, and a year later senior assistant. In January 1991 he was offered a C 3 professorship at the University of Bamberg , where Geyer built up Classical Archeology as a master's and doctoral degree. In September 1993 she became the successor to Gerhard Zinserling C 4 professor for classical archeology at the University of Jena and nominally head of the local antiquities collection . She was the first representative of her subject in the leading position after the restructuring of the university after the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification . From April 1995 to March 1997, Geyer was director of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Jena, from October 1997 to September 1999 she was dean of the Philosophical Faculty and from April 2005 to March 2007 she was again director of the Institute for Classical Studies. Geyer retired in 2013. Her successor was Eva Winter in 2014 .

Geyer has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since mid-1991. In 1997 she became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

She conducts research on a wide variety of topics, such as ancient painting, Greek reliefs, Roman mosaics and Roman architecture as well as the antiquities collection of the University of Jena. With the support of the German Research Foundation , she conducted research at the Roman Apsaros fort in Georgia until 2003 and the so-called temple in Quinta de Marim in Portugal until 2004 .

Fonts

• The problem of the relation to reality in the Dionysian visual art of the imperial era (= contributions to archeology, volume 10). Triltsch, Würzburg 1977, ISBN 3-87825-033-9 (dissertation).
• The genesis of narrative book illustration. The cycle of miniatures on the Aeneid in the Vergilius Vaticanus (= Frankfurt Scientific Contributions, Cultural Studies Series, Volume 17). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-465-01888-5 (habilitation thesis).

In addition, Geyer published the series of Jena booklets on classical archeology and Jena research in Georgia as well as other publications from the Jena Collection of Classical Antiquities or related fields.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and list of publications on the Jena University website