Corinna Rohn

Corinna Rohn (born 1969 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) is a German building researcher .

Born in Berlin, Corinna Rohn graduated from high school in Melsungen in 1988 . She then studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts , where she graduated in 1995 . During her studies, from 1992 onwards, she regularly took part in various excavations of the German Archaeological Institute . After her diploma, she became a research assistant at the excavation in Didyma and participated in the map of the city of Herakleia on the Latmos in Asia Minor . For 1996/1997 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , with which she traveled to the countries of the Mediterranean and Yemen .

With a subsequent research grant from the German Archaeological Institute, which was granted until 2002, she worked on the stadium-theater complex of Aizanoi . For 2002 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . In October of the same year, she took up a position as a research assistant at the Chair of Building History at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus , which she held until she completed her doctorate in Cottbus in 2008 and was supervised by Adolf Hoffmann .

She was awarded the Max Grünebaum Prize in 2008 for the outstanding scientific achievement that she demonstrated in her doctoral thesis on the theater-stadium complex in Aizanoi . In the same year she became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, and the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences appointed her to the chair for building history and monument preservation , where she also took over the management of the laboratory for building surveying and building research. She has been dean since 2018 .

Corinna Rohn, who has been a member of the Koldewey Society since 2002 , has been appointed to various committees and advisory boards. Since 2010 she has been a member of the University Council of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences , and since 2012 of the scientific advisory board of the Archäologische Anzeiger , one of the most important German-language specialist journals in the field of archeology. In 2014 she became a member of the State Monument Council for Hesse .

Corinna Rohn's research focuses primarily on settlement topographical projects and targeted construction research on individual monuments. So she headed the building history studies of Triphylia in a project carried out with Joachim Heiden . The individual investigations include, for example, the partial construction survey of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and the investigations into the Umayyad palace complex Khirbat al-Minya in Israel as part of the research there by Hans-Peter Kuhnen and the University of Mainz . Since 2018 she has been researching the settlement development of the ancient city of Kaulonia in Calabria in cooperation with Oliver Pilz .

Publications (selection)

• The Aizanoi Theater-Stadium Complex. Cottbus, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2007 online resource , access at HEIDI

Web links

• Corinna Rohn on the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences website (accessed on July 20, 2020)
• Corinna Rohn on the website of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg (accessed on July 20, 2020)

Remarks

1. ↑ Max Grünebaum Foundation: Prize Winners 2008 (accessed on July 20, 2020).
2. ^ Institute for Classical Studies (IAW): Annual Report 2016 , pp. 48–50 ( PDF , accessed on July 20, 2020).
3. ↑ Investigations on the urban planning of Kaulonia in the Archaic to Hellenistic Period on the website of the University of Mainz (accessed on July 20, 2020).