Burkhardt Wesenberg

Burkhardt Wesenberg (born October 14, 1940 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Burkhardt Wesenberg, son of the art historian Rudolf Wesenberg , studied classical archeology, prehistory and early history as well as Greek studies in Marburg, Freiburg, Cologne and Bonn. He was born in 1966 with Heinrich Drerup at the University of Marburg with the work capitals and bases. Doctorate on observations on the origin of the Greek columnar forms . He then received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in 1967/68 and traveled to the Mediterranean . He then worked from 1972 to 1978 as an assistant professor at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken , where he qualified as a professor in 1976 with the thesis Contributions to the Reconstruction of Greek Architecture from Literary Sources . From 1978 to 1985 Wesenberg was a professor at the University of Mainz . In 1985 he was appointed to the chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Regensburg , succeeding Werner Gauer , where he taught until his retirement in 2006. Christian Kunze was his successor . Wesenberg, who primarily researches ancient architecture, is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts

• Capitals and bases. Observations on the origin of the Greek columnar forms , Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-7927-0002-6 ( Bonner Jahrbücher , supplement 32) ( full text ).
• Contributions to the reconstruction of Greek architecture according to literary sources , Mann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7861-1376-9 ( communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department , Supplement 9)
• Editor with Heiner Knell : Vitruvian Colloquium of the German Archaeological Association. Carried out at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 17.-18. June 1982 , Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-88607-031-X (THD series of publications on science and technology 22)

literature

• Heide Frielinghaus , Jutta Stroszeck (ed.): New research on Greek cities and shrines. Festschrift for Burkhardt Wesenberg on his 65th birthday , Bibliopolis, Möhnesee 2010, ISBN 978-3-933925-91-6 ( contributions to the archeology of Greece , volume 1).

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkhardt Wesenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Regensburg