Christine Strube

Christine Strube (born February 14, 1943 in Senftenberg , Niederlausitz ) is a German Christian archaeologist .

She studied Classical Archeology , Ancient History and Classical Philology in Cologne , Bonn and Frankfurt and Byzantine Studies in Munich . In 1970 she was presented with the work The Western Entrance Side of the Churches of Constantinople in Justinian times. Architectural and source-critical studies in Munich for Dr. phil. PhD. With the help of a scholarship, she was able to carry out research on early Christian architecture and building decoration in Syria in 1971 and 1972 and completed her habilitation in 1977 at the University of Munich. From 1980 until her retirement in 2009 she taught as a professor at the University of Heidelberg (since 1987 C 3) Christian archeology and Byzantine archeology and art history. She is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and was a specialist representative for Christian archeology in its central directorate from 1997 to 2010. Her main research interests are the interrelationships between architecture and liturgy , the settlement history of the Near East and building decoration from the late antique-early Byzantine period in Constantinople, Syria and Asia Minor.

Fonts

• The western entrance side of the churches of Constantinople in Justinian times: Architectural and source-critical investigations . Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1973
• Polyeuktoskirche and Hagia Sophia. Reorganization and dissolution of ancient forms, emergence of the combatant capital . Munich, Bayer publishing house. Akad. D. Knowledge 1984 (Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class 1984, issue 92)
• Building decoration in the northern Syrian limestone massif. Volume I. Forms of capitals, doors and cornices in the churches of the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1993 (Damascus Research 5)
• The » Dead Cities «. Town and country in northern Syria during late antiquity . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1996 (special issues of the ancient world)
• Building decoration in the northern Syrian limestone massif. Volume II. Forms of capitals, doors and cornices from the 6th and early 7th centuries AD. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002 (Damascus Research 12)

literature

• Ina Eichner, Vasiliki Tsamakda (ed.): Syria and its neighbors from late antiquity to the Islamic period . Festschrift Christine Strube. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-89500-674-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Strube in the catalog of the German National Library
• Strube, Christine .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Homepage at the University of Heidelberg