Burkhard Fehr

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Burkhard Fehr (born February 23, 1942 in Lindenberg) is a German classical archaeologist and was a professor at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg until his release in 2007 .

Burkhard Fehr received his doctorate from Heinrich Drerup at the University of Marburg in 1968 ; In 1977 he completed his habilitation in the department of cultural history and cultural studies at the University of Hamburg. Fehr's main interests are societal, socio-economic and economic aspects of ancient art, be it in sculpture, iconography or architecture. Fehr is an essential protagonist of the science-critical "Hamburg School" in classical archeology, which provided important impulses and innovations for the subject in the 1970s and 1980s. Martina Seifert succeeded Fehr's Hamburg professorship in 2010 . Among other things, Fehr taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations in Changchun (China).

Fonts (selection)

  • Oriental and Greek feasts. Studies on image type and interpretation. Bouvier, Bonn 1971 (also: Marburg, Univ., Philos. Fac., Diss. 1968), ISBN 3-416-00689-5 .
  • Movements and ideals of behavior. Physiognomic possibilities of interpreting the representation of movement on Greek statues of the 5th and 5th centuries 4th century v. Chr. Moreland Editions, Bad Bramstedt 1979 (also: Hamburg, Univ., Department of Cultural History and Cultural Studies, Habil.-Schr., 1977).
  • The killers of tyrants or Can you erect a monument to democracy? Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-23914-1 .
  • The military as a model. Political function and group-specific perception of the Traian's Forum and the Traian's Column. In: Hephaestus. Critical journal on the theory and practice of archeology and related areas, Vol. 7/8, 1985/86, 39–60.
  • The Greek Temple in the Early Archaic Period. Meaning, Use and Social Context. In: Hephaestus. Critical journal on the theory and practice of archeology and related areas, Vol. 14, 1996, 165–191.
  • Kouroi e korai. Formule e tipi dell'arte arcaica come espressione di valori. In: S. Settis (ed.), I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società, 2. Una storia Greca, 1. Formazione. Einaudi, Torino 1996, 785-843.
  • Society, Consanguinity and the Fertility of Women. The Community of Deities on the Great Frieze of the Pergamum Altar as a Paradigm of Cross-Cultural Ideas. In: P. Bilde u. a. (eds., Conventional Values ​​of the Hellenistic Greeks, Aarhus University Press 1997), 48-66.
  • Aspects of political and religious symbolism in Hadrian's time. In: W. Hübner and K. Stähler (eds.), Ikonographie und Ikonologie (UGARIT Verlag, Münster 2004), 93–124.
  • Ponos and the Pleasure of Rest. Some Thoughts on Body Language in Greek Art and Life during the Late Archaic and Early Classical Period In: D. Yatromanolakis (ed.), An Archeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase Painting and Contemporary Methodologies (Kardamitsa Publications , Athens 2009).
  • Becoming Good Democrats and Wives. Civic Education and Female Socialization on the Parthenon Frieze (= Hephaistos. New Approaches to Classical Archeology and Related Fields, special volume, LIT Verlag Berlin / Zurich 2011), ISBN 978-3-643-99900-9 , ISSN  0174-2086 .

A complete bibliography (as of October 2008) can be found in volume 25 of the magazine Hephaistos , dedicated to him , pp. 275–279. Fehr has been (co-) editor of this specialist journal for archeology and related sciences since 1979 and is now available in 25 volumes.

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personal data
SURNAME Fehr, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenberg