Christian Russenberger

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Christian Russenberger is a Swiss classical archaeologist .

Christian Russenberger studied Classical Archeology and the minor subjects Ancient History and Greek Literature at the University of Zurich . In 2003 he completed his studies with a licentiate . This was followed from January 2004 to September 2005 as a research assistant and curator of the Archaeological Collection at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Zurich. From January 2005 to December 2006 Russenberger was a doctoral scholarship holder at Zurich University. Between September 2005 and July 2006 he stayed to write his dissertation in the Villa Maraini of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma . The doctorate took place in November 2010 at the University of Zurich, the title of the dissertation published in 2015 was Death and the Girls. The Amazonomachy as a theme of the Roman sarcophagus sculpture . From March 2007 to July 2012, Russenberger was a research fellow at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Zurich, where he was responsible for the Zurich Ietas excavation. In August 2012 he became a research assistant at the Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Basel ; he remained in the position until July 2013, during which time he also held teaching positions at the University of Zurich. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation from October 2013 to September 2016 ( fellowship for advanced researchers ) for the indigenous living between Greeks and Punic people project . Elements of cultural identity in an ancient residential area on Monte Iato (Sicily) , where he studied abroad in Palermo , Berlin , Oxford and Rome . During this time he was a visiting professor at the University of Palermo from October 2013 to September 2014 and a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck in February 2016 . Another one-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to conclude the project Indigenous Living between Greeks and Punic people. Russenberger held elements of cultural identity in an ancient residential area on Monte Iato (Sicily) from February 2017 to January 2018.

Russenberger has been a research assistant at the Heinrich Schliemann Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Rostock since May 2018, where Jutta Fischer's successor is the curator of the Archaeological Collection of the University of Rostock . In this position he accompanied the reorganization of the cast collection in the center of Rostock.

Russenberger's research focuses on ancient sculpture, in particular ancient sarcophagi, ancient Sicily, especially the Punic presence on the island, ancient living culture and iconography in the private sphere of Roman culture, as well as special studies on Greek and Etruscan ceramics.

From 2005 to 2009 Russenberger was a member of the board of the Swiss Working Group for Classical Archeology , from 2009 to 2013 board member of Hellas (Swiss Association of Friends of Greece, Section Eastern Switzerland).

Fonts

  • Editor with Christina Leypold and Martin Mohr: Reuse and reuse of consecrated statues in Greek shrines. Conference at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Zurich 21./22. January 2011. (= Zürcher Archäologische Forschungen , Volume 2), Leidorf, Rahden 2014, ISBN 978-3-86757-662-8 .
  • Death and the girls. Amazons on Roman sarcophagi. (= Image & Context , Volume 13), De Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-029839-0 , online ISBN 978-3-11-029860-4 and ISBN 978-3-11-038915- 9 .

Web links

  • Portrait on the website of the University of Rostock

Remarks

  1. ^ Dpa : Collection of casts of ancient sculptures exhibited . In: THE WORLD . January 23, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed April 18, 2020]). , also in FOCUS Online: Rostock: Collection of casts of antique sculptures exhibited. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Preparation for the new campus: University in the stress of moving. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Review by Marianne Mathys in Museum Helveticum , 72 (2014), pp. 113–114.
  4. ^ Review by Jean-Robert Gisler, Museum Helveticum 73, 2016, 123f .; Reviewed by Iris Krauskopf, Ancient West & East 16, 2017, 458–461.
personal data
SURNAME Russenberger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century