Jürgen Borchhardt

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Jürgen Borchhardt , with full name Jürgen Borchhardt Freiherr Bernewitz (born February 25, 1936 in Sprottau , Lower Silesia , † July 26, 2021 ), was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Hanover in 1958 , he studied classical archeology, prehistory and early history and ancient history at the University of Heidelberg and the FU Berlin . In 1963 he received his doctorate from Roland Hampe in Heidelberg . In 1963/64 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1965 to 1968 he carried out investigations in the Lycian city ​​of Myra on behalf of the German Research Foundation . His interest in Lycia has persisted since then, with an emphasis on Limyra , where he worked again and again from 1969, also on the development of the site up to the Roman Empire . Particularly noteworthy are the research into the so-called Heroon of Limyra and the cenotaph of Gaius Caesar . He also focused his publications on researching Lycia.

After working as an assistant and lecturer for classical archeology at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) from 1966 to 1970 , he completed his habilitation in 1973 with a thesis on the architectural sculpture of the Heroon of Limyra at the University of Frankfurt am Main under Gerhard Kleiner . In 1979 he became professor of classical archeology there. From 1982 until his retirement in 2001 he taught as a full university professor at the University of Vienna .

Borchhardt was a member of the DAI and the Austrian Archaeological Institute as well as a corresponding member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

He died in July 2021 at the age of 85. His first marriage was to the archaeologist Heide Borchhardt, his second marriage to the art historian, journalist and exhibition curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer (* 1955).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Homeric helmets. Helmet shapes of the Aegean in their relationship to oriental and European helmets in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1972 (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1963).
  • The architectural sculpture of the Heroon of Limyra. The tomb of the Lycian king Perikles (= Istanbul research. Vol. 32). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-7861-2237-7 (also habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt am Main 1972/1973).
  • The stones of Zẽmuri. Archaeological research on the hidden waters of Limyra. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-901232-01-X .
  • The frieze from the cenotaph for Gaius Caesar in Limyra (= research in Limyra. Vol. 2). Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901232-25-7 .
  • with Heiner Eichner and Klaus Schulz: Kerththi or the attempt to identify an ancient settlement of the Classical period in Central Lycia (= Adalya. Ekyayın dizisi = Supplementary Series. Vol. 3). Suna-İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü et al., Antalya 2005, ISBN 975-7078-26-3 .
  • with Anastasia Pekridou-Gorecki: Limyra. Studies on art and epigraphy in the necropolis of antiquity (= research in Limyra. Vol. 5). Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85161-062-8 .
  • with Erika Bleibtreu : Structures of Lycian residential cities compared to older cities in the Middle East = Lykia'daki yönetsel Merkezi kentlerin ön asya'nın recognize kentleri ile karşılaştırılması (Özet) (= Adalya. Ekyayın dizisi = Supplementary 12) Series . Suna-İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü, Antalya 2013, ISBN 978-605-4018-18-5 .
  • The wrath of Poseidon and the wanderings of Odysseus. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85161-077-2 .
  • The Mithraeum in Antiocheia on the Orontes. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-85161-224-0 .

Editorships

  • Myra. A Lycian metropolis in ancient and Byzantine times (= Istanbul research. Vol. 30). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-7861-2209-1 .

literature

  • Fritz Blakolmer, Karl R. Krierer, Fritz Krinzinger, Alice Landskron-Dinstl, Hubert D. Szemethy, Karoline Zhuber-Okrog (eds.): Fremde Zeiten. Festschrift for Jürgen Borchhardt for his sixtieth birthday on February 25, 1996 presented by colleagues, students and friends. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901232-13-3 (with list of publications up to 1993).
  • Fritz Blakolmer, Martin Seyer, Hubert D. Szemethy (eds.): Arrived on Ithaka. Ceremony for Jürgen Borchhardt on his 80th birthday. Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85161-147-2 (with list of publications 1994–2015).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Borchhardt Freiherr Bernewitz. In: univie.ac.at . September 30, 2019, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  2. ↑ o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Borchhardt. In: univie.ac.at . 2003, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  3. ^ Heide Borchhardt: Early Greek shield forms . Dissertation Heidelberg 1964 (printed abridged in Archaeologia Homerica , Volume 1, Chapter E, pp. E1-E59).
personal data
SURNAME Borchhardt, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borchhardt Freiherr von Bernewitz, Jürgen
SHORT DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
BIRTH DATE February 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprottau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2021