Bernard Andreae

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Bernard Andreae (born July 27, 1930 in Graz ) is a German classical archaeologist . Andreae was the first professor for Classical Archeology at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1965 to 1978 . From the summer semester of 1988 he taught as a professor of classical archeology at the University of Marburg . From 1984 to 1995 he was director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome .

Live and act

The son of the economist Wilhelm Andreae and the writer Illa Andreae attended the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Gießen until he graduated from high school in September 1949. He then studied from 1949 to 1955 in Marburg and Rome Classical Archeology, Classical Philology, Ancient History and Art History. On July 26, 1954, he received his doctorate in Marburg with Friedrich Matz with a dissertation on Roman sarcophagi . He then held the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute from 1955 to 1956 . From 1956 to 1959 he was the first speaker at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. From 1959 to 1962 he was an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Bonn. On May 12, 1962, he completed his habilitation with studies in Roman funerary art at the University of Bonn and then worked as a lecturer there until 1965.

In 1965 Andreae became a full professor at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum. There he founded the archaeological department of the art collections of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum , which he made into one of the most important archaeological university collections in Germany through the acquisition of some top-class antiques: Among others, marble portraits of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla and the Emperor Mark Aurel , as well as a bronze head of the emperor Severus Alexander , which shows the traces of the execution of the Damnatio memoriae . The collection also includes a rich collection of ancient, Greek and Etruscan , vases and other ancient coins. In the 1978 summer semester he moved to the University of Marburg , where he was also responsible for editing the Corpus Die antique sarcophagus reliefs . From 1984 to 1995 Andreae was First Director of the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute.

Andreae focuses on the interpretation and reconstruction of ancient art. His research on the Sperlonga finds was groundbreaking . He published a monumental work on Roman art in the Great Epochs of World Art series . The depiction saw several editions and was also translated into English, French and Italian. He has received numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. He was awarded the Gran Ufficiale of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy (1973) and the Order Pour le Mérite (1991). In 1993 Andreae received the Premio Daria Borghese , a Roman literary prize. In 1994 he received the Great Gold Medal of the Republic of Austria and the Winckelmann Medal of the City of Stendal . In 1998 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Sperlonga. In 2008 he was honored with the great Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany . Andreae is a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (1980), a full member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia in Rome (since 1975), a corresponding member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt (since 1993) and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (since 1989).

He married in 1961.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Investigations in the history of motifs on the Roman battle sarcophagi. Mann, Berlin 1956 (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1957).
  • Studies on Roman funerary art (= communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department . Supplementary booklet 9, ISSN  0342-1309 ). Kerle, Heidelberg 1963 (at the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation thesis, 1961/1962).
  • Roman art. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 1973, ISBN 3-451-16285-7 .
  • The Alexander mosaic from Pompeii. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1977, ISBN 3-7647-0297-4 .
  • The Roman hunting sarcophagi (= The ancient sarcophagus reliefs . Volume 1: The sarcophagi with depictions of human life. Part 2). Mann, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7861-1264-9 .
  • Odysseus. Archeology of the European image of man. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0397-1 .
  • The symbolism of the lion hunt. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1985, ISBN 3-531-11955-9 .
  • Laocoon and the founding of Rome (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 39). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0989-9 .
  • with Gioia de Luca, Nikolaus Himmelmann , Max Kunze , Christa Landwehr, Theun-Mathias Schmidt and Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner : Phyromachos problems (= communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department. Supplement 31). With an appendix for the dating of the great altar of Pergamon. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1126-5 .
  • Praetorium speluncae. Tiberius and Ovid in Sperlonga (= Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Year 1994, number 12). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06643-8 .
  • "On the pear tree". Gardens and parks in ancient Rome, in the Vesuvius cities and in Ostia (= cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 66). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1854-5 .
  • The Farnese Bull. Fates of a masterpiece by the Pergamene sculptors Apollonios and Tauriskos von Tralleis (= Rombach Science. Series of sources on art. Volume 1). Rombach, Freiburg 1996, ISBN 3-7930-9127-9 .
  • Beauty of realism. Client, creator, viewer of Hellenistic sculpture (= cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 77). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2348-4 .
  • Odysseus. Myth and Memory. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2587-8 .
  • Sculpture of Hellenism. Hirmer, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7774-9200-0 .
  • Antique picture mosaics. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3156-8 .
  • with Michael Philipp, Nina Simone Schepkowski and Ortrud Westheider: Painting for Eternity. The tombs of Paestum. Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3745-3 .

Editorships

  • with Helmut Kyrieleis : New research in Pompeii and the other cities buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1975, ISBN 3-7647-0270-2 .
  • with Heinz Spielmann : The Etruscans. Luxury for the afterlife. Pictures from this side - pictures of death (= publications of the Bucerius-Kunst-Forum. Volume 5). Hirmer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7774-2055-7 .
  • with Dorothee Böhm, Karsten Müller, Karin Rhein and Ortrud Westheider : Cleopatra and the Caesars. Hirmer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-3245-8 .

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Volume 3: From 1971 to 1991. Part 1: Department 01 - 19. Elwert, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-7708-1159-3 , p. 179.
  • Andreae, Bernard. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 1: A - G. 30th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-051766-8 , p. 57.
  • Andreae, Bernard. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 1988/89, 139th year, Vienna 1989, pp. 95–96.

Web links

Remarks

  1. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 .
  2. ^ Member entry by Bernard Andreae at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, accessed on April 25, 2019.
  3. Member website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences