Dieter Hertel

Ernst Dieter Hertel (born January 7, 1948 in Werdohl ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Dieter Hertel was at the 1978 University of Bonn in Nicholas Himmelmann doctorate. The topic of his dissertation was investigations into the style and chronology of the portraits of emperors and princes from Augustus to Claudius . In 1978/79 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, from 1984 to 1990 as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne , where in 1994 he also did a thesis on the subject of a city as a testimony to its history. Troia / Ilion habilitated in Greek and Hellenistic-Roman times . Since then he has worked at the Archaeological Institute in Cologne, initially as a private lecturer, and since 2003 as an adjunct professor. In the meantime he taught from 1997 to 2001 as a lecturer and deputy professor at the University of Munich .

Hertel is a specialist in Roman portrait sculpture and the archeology of Northwest Asia Minor. He is one of the critics of an all too historical interpretation of Homer's Iliad and is therefore on the side of the Korfmann critics in the Troy debate . Hertel took part in excavations in Troy several times and published several books on the subject. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the style and chronology of the portraits of emperors and princes from Augustus to Claudius. Dissertation University of Bonn 1982.
• with Jürgen Untermann (ed.): Andalusia between prehistory and the Middle Ages (= Forum Ibero-Americanum vol. 7). Böhlau, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-412-02992-0 .
• Troy. Archeology, history, myth . ( CH Beck knowledge ). CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-44766-X .
• The walls of Troy. Myth and History in Ancient Ilion . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50444-2 (revised habilitation thesis).
• The early Ilion. The colonization of Troy by the Greeks (1020–650 / 25 BC) . CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56485-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Hertel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hertel's page at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne