Berthold F. Weber

Berthold F. Weber (born May 11, 1954 , † August 22, 2005 in Milet ) was a German architect and building researcher .

Life

From 1977 Berthold Weber studied architecture, archeology, building history and monument preservation at the universities in Mainz and Darmstadt. Even as a student he took part in excavations by the German Archaeological Institute , from 1979 to 1981 in Priene and from 1980 in Miletus . In 1985/86 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1985 to 1991 he was Gottfried Gruben's assistant at the chair for building history, building form theory and recording of buildings at the Technical University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on the "Roman Heroa of Miletus". He then worked as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul .

Since 1997 Weber has been in charge of the restoration work on the Roman theater in Miletus. From 2001 he was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bochum , which enabled him to continue his research in Miletus . Weber was killed in an accident during the 2005 excavation campaign in Miletus.

Fonts (selection)

• The excavations in Heroon III. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 35, 1985, pp. 24-38.
• A late Archaic temple on the Mengerevtepe near Miletus. Work in September 1997. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1995, pp. 228–238.
• Water towers in Miletus. The probes on the street between Südmarkt and Magazinhalle in 1997. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1999, pp. 109–114.
• The restoration work in the theater of Miletus. Work in September 1997. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1999, pp. 115–124.
• The components of the Temple of Athena in Miletus. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1999, pp. 415–438.
• The restoration work in the theater of Miletus. Work in the 1998-1999 campaigns In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 2001, pp. 423-450.
• The column order of the archaic Dionysus temple by Myous. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 52 2002, pp. 221–271.
• The Roman Heroa of Miletus. (= Miletus. Results of excavations and investigations since 1899, Part 10, No. 1) Berlin 2004 (= revised version of the dissertation, Technical University of Munich 1993).

literature

• Wolf Koenigs : Berthold F. Weber. In: Report on the 43rd Conference on Excavation Science and Building Research. Habelt, Bonn 2006, pp. XIII-XIV.

Web links

• Obituary from the University of Bochum