Erich Kistler

Erich Kistler is a Swiss classical archaeologist .

Erich Kistler studied classical archeology, ancient history and philosophy at the University of Zurich from 1989 to 1998 . In 1998 he worked with Hans Peter Isler in Zurich on the subject of the “sacrificial groove ceremony”. Doctorate in banquet ideology at the grave, orientalization and formation of a noble society in Athens . Here he worked on the offering ditches in the Kerameikos - necropolis in Athens . He had been a research assistant in Zurich since 1995. In 2001, Kistler was primarily responsible for the research project Greek Celtic Images at the University of Zurich, in the context of which he completed his habilitation in 2004 with a thesis on “functionalized Celtic images”. In 2003/04 he was primarily responsible for the research project Cultural Antagonism in Archaic Greece. Contracultural Worlds, Lifestyles and Worldviews from 700 to 480 BC at the Institute for Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck . From 2004 to 2008 he then headed the research project The Late Archaic House on Monte Iato of the Swiss National Science Foundation . In addition, from 2006 to 2008 he was part of the project leader of the excavations at the University of Zurich on Monte Iato in Sicily and from 2004 to 2008 university lecturer at the University of Zurich and the University of Bern . From 2008 he taught as a university professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 2009 he was appointed to the University of Innsbruck, where he has held the professorship for Classical Archeology since 2010. There he is currently heading the project Between Aphrodite Temple and Late Archaic House. On religion and power building on Monte Iato in archaic western Sicily by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research . In 2012 he turned down an offer to succeed Tonio Hölscher at Heidelberg University .

Kistler's research focuses on the exploration of cultural contacts, social elites in archaic Greece and objects and technologies in the pre-Roman Mediterranean region. He also researches housing and settlement in western Sicily.

Fonts

• The "sacrificial groove ceremony". Banquet ideology at the grave, orientalization and formation of a noble society in Athens , Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07367-1 .
• Functionalized Celtic images. The use of the Celts to convey norms and values ​​in the Hellenistic world , Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938032-36-7 .
• together with Christoph Ulf : The emergence of Greece (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history , vol. 46), de Gruyter-Oldenbourg, Berlin / Munich 2019, ISBN 3-486-52991-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Kistler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about Kistler at the University of Innsbruck