Dieter Mertens (building researcher)

Dieter Mertens (born June 29, 1941 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German building researcher .

Mertens first began studying art history and classical philology at the University of Cologne , but soon switched to studying architecture at the Technical University of Munich , where he graduated in 1967. Since 1970 he has been a consultant for the architecture and urban studies of Greater Greece at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . In 1975 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich under Gottfried Gruben with a thesis on the Temple of Segesta. In 1991 he became scientific director at the DAI Rome, in 2001 he became the first director of the DAI Rome; his successor was Henner von Hesberg in 2006 .

Mertens' research focus is on the architecture and urban architecture of the Greeks in southern Italy. He led large-scale excavations in Metapont , Syracuse , Paestum , Capo Soprano , Selinunt , Sybaris and Segesta .

Fonts

The temple of Segesta and the Doric temple architecture of the Greek west in classical times (= German Archaeological Institute. Rome department. Special publications. Vol. 6). von Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-8053-0515-X .
The old Temple of Hera in Paestum and the archaic architecture in southern Italy (= German Archaeological Institute. Rome department. Special publications. Vol. 9). von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1331-4 .
Selinus I. The city and its walls (= German Archaeological Institute. Rome department. Special publications. Vol. 13). von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3248-3 .
Cities and buildings of the western Greeks. From the colonization time to the crisis around 400 BC. Hirmer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-2755-1 .