Christian Kunze

Christian Kunze (* 1962 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Christian Kunze, son of the archaeologist Erika Kunze-Götte and the musicologist Stefan Kunze , grandson of the archaeologist Emil Kunze and brother of the painter Michael Kunze , studied classical archeology, art history and philosophy at the University of Bern and the Free University of Berlin . In 1990 he completed his studies with a master's degree. From 1991 to 1994 he was one of the studienstiftung supported doctoral student at the University of Berlin and was in Adolf Borbein with the work sculptures of the high and late Hellenism. PhD studies on their formal development and content interpretation . Afterwards Kunze became a research assistant at the archaeological institute of the University of Bonn . In 1997 he took part in the course Religious Representation in Archaic and Classical Athens of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Athens . In 1999/2000 he spent a year as a habilitation fellow of the German Research Foundation at the University of Oxford , the Beazley Archive , and at the Center Louis Gernet of the École des Hautes Études in Paris. With the work Myth in Transition. Studies on the change of the mythical picture from the archaic to the classical period Kunze received his habilitation in 2004 in Bonn. In the summer semester of 2005, he represented Harald Mielsch's chair in Bonn . In 2006 he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Regensburg , succeeding Burkhardt Wesenberg . Kunze has been the editor of the DAI series of publications, Antike Plastik, since 2008 . A year later he became a full member of the DAI and its central management.

Kunze primarily researches Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek vase painting and ancient iconography .

Fonts

• The Farnesian Bull and the Dirkegruppe des Apollonios and Tauriskos , de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-016162-1 , ( Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute . Supplement 30)
• Within reach. Style phenomena in Hellenistic sculpture and their interpretation of content , Biering and Brinkmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-930609-36-3 .

Web links

• Portrait of Kunze on the website of the University of Regensburg