Daniel Graepler

Daniel Graepler (* 1959 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Daniel Graepler studied classical archeology , art history , ancient history and classical philology at the University of Marburg , the University of Bonn and the University of Munich from 1978 to 1989 . In 1984 he made his Munich Master of Arts , 1989, he was there with Paul Zanker with a dissertation on terra cottas in the grave context of a doctorate . In 1989/90 he traveled to the Mediterranean area as holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1990 he first became a research assistant and later a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University . In 1999 Graepler moved to the Archaeological Institute of the University of Göttingen , where he is in charge of the archaeological collections as curator .

Graepler is concerned with the archeology of Greater Greece and especially with the cities of Apulia , especially Taranto . He is a specialist in Greek, especially Hellenistic, coroplasty . Another research focus is the social history of the artist and the craftsman in ancient and modern times. Graepler researches the theory and methodology of archaeological grave research and the history of ancient sciences. A special focus for the archaeologist is on the international protection of cultural property and the fight against the illegal trade in antiquities.

Fonts

• Location: unknown. Robbery excavations destroy the archaeological heritage. A documentation (with Marina Mazzei), Archaeological Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1993
• Clay figures in the grave. Find contexts of Hellenistic terracottas from the necropolis of Tarento , Biering and Brinkmann, Munich 1997 ISBN 3-930609-13-4
• Barbarian Death and Venus Cult. Greek sculptures from the gardens of Rome. Two new casts from the Hellmann donation (with Marianne Bergmann ), Archaeological Institute of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen 2002
• The study of fine antiquity. Christian Gottlob Heyne and the emergence of classical archeology (Ed. With Joachim Migl), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-930457-82-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Graepler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Graepler on the homepage of the University of Göttingen