Felix Pirson
Felix Pirson (born August 16, 1968 in Marburg ) is a German classical archaeologist .
Felix Pirson studied between 1989 and 1993 classical archeology, art history , ancient history and prehistory and early history at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the University of Cologne and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). In 1993 he completed his studies with a master’s degree, and in 1994 he obtained a Master of Philosophy at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge . The doctorate took place in 1996 at the LMU, the subject of the dissertation was rental apartments in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Studies on architecture, living and the social and economic history of the Vesuvius cities .
Pirson then became a research assistant at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), where he was employed as part of the research focus “Urban Culture in the Roman Empire”. 1997–2002, he and Jens-Arne Dickmann led an excavation and documentation project in Pompeii ( Casa dei Postumii ). In 1998/99 he held the DAI's travel grant . In 1999 Pirson became a research assistant at the Department of Building History at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus , where he was teaching archeology as part of the “World Heritage Studies” course. Two years later, in 2001, he became a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology and at the Museum of Antiquities at the University of Leipzig . The habilitation took place in Leipzig in 2005 with a thesis on the subject of views of the war. Battle reliefs from the Classical and Hellenistic times in a cultural comparison .
Also in 2005 Pirson became Second Director of the Istanbul Department of the DAI , in 2006 he became First Director of the Department and also head of the excavations in Pergamon .
In 2009 he was elected a corresponding member of the American Institute of Archeology . In March 2010 he was appointed honorary professor for classical archeology at the University of Leipzig. Since 2010 he has been a Senior Fellow of the Institute of the Studies of the Ancient World at New York University . In March 2011 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and in April 2013 a corresponding member of the Turkish Institute for Classical Studies ( Türk Eskiçağ Bilimleri Enstitüsü ). From November to December 2014 he was visiting professor ( Directeur d'études ) at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE, Paris), Section des sciences historiques et philologiques .
Pirson is co-editor of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies and the Istanbuler Mitteilungen as well as editor and co-editor of the series Antiquities of Pergamon , Pergamene Research , BYZAS , MIRAS and Istanbul Research .
selected Writings
- Rental apartments in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Studies on architecture, living and the social and economic history of the Vesuvius cities , Pfeil, Munich 1999 (Studies on the ancient city, volume 5)
- with Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (editor): exchange and inspiration. Cultural contact as an impulse for architectural innovation. Colloquium from April 28 - 30, 2006 in Berlin on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Adolf Hoffmann , von Zabern, Mainz 2008 (Discussions on archaeological building research, Volume 9) ISBN 978-3-8053-3925-4
- Views of war. Battle reliefs from the Classical and Hellenistic times in a cultural comparison . Archaeological Research 31 (Wiesbaden 2014)
- with Sabine Ladstätter and Thomas Schmidts (editors): Ports and port cities in the eastern Mediterranean from antiquity to Byzantine times . Report Istanbul Colloquium 2011. Byzas (Istanbul 2014; in press)
- with Andreas Scholl (editor): Pergamon. Anadolu´da Bir Helenistik Dönem Başkenti. A Hellenistic Capital in Anatolia (Istanbul 2014)
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| SURNAME | Pirson, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |