Carola Jäggi

Carola Jäggi (born May 23, 1963 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss art historian .

From 1982 to 1988 Jäggi studied art history , classical archeology , Christian archeology , medieval archeology and ethnology at the universities of Basel , Zurich , Freiburg and Bonn . In 1988 she obtained the Lic. Phil. with a thesis on the development of Aquileia in late antiquity. From 1990 to 1992 she spent a PhD scholarship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. From 1992 to 1997 she was a research assistant at Beat Brenk's chair at the University of Basel . Here she also received her doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on the Church of San Salvatore in Spoleto . From 1997 to 2000 she held a habilitation grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation , from 2000 to 2002 she was assistant to Robert Suckale's chair for art history at the TU Berlin , where she also habilitated in 2003 with a thesis on nuns' choirs in early women's convents of the mendicant orders .

From 2002 to 2013 she was Professor of Christian Archeology and Art History at the Theological Faculty of the University of Erlangen . In the 2009/10 academic year she was Richard Krautheimer visiting professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Since April 1, 2013 she has been Professor of Art History of the Middle Ages and of Archeology of the Early Christian and High and Late Medieval Periods at the University of Zurich .

She is a member of the University Council of the University of Erlangen , the Board of Directors of the Society for Swiss Art History and the Federal Commission for Monument Preservation (EKD).

Fonts (selection)

Book publications:

• The town church of St.Laurentius in Winterthur. Results of the archaeological and historical research (together with Hans-Rudolf Meier , Renata Windler and Martin Illi), Zürcher Denkmalpflege, Archäologische Monographien Vol. 14, Zurich 1993.
• For earthly glory and heavenly reward. Founder and client in medieval art (edited with Hans-Rudolf Meier and Philippe Büttner), Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-4960-1137-8 .
• San Salvatore in Spoleto. Studies of late antique and early medieval architecture in Italy (= late antiquity. Early Christianity. Byzantium. Art in the first millennium, vol. 5). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-89500-078-7 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1995).
• Women's convent in the late Middle Ages. The churches of the Poor Clares and Dominicans in the 13th and 14th centuries (= studies on international architecture and art history. Vol. 34). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-86568-009-9 (habilitation thesis, Technical University Berlin, 2001).
• Ravenna. Art and culture of a late antique royal seat. The buildings and mosaics of the 5th and 6th centuries. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2774-0 . review

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2013, Volume 2, p. 1753.

Web links

• Website at the University of Zurich