Florens Felten

Karl-Florens Felten (born December 25, 1941 in Munich ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Florens Felten was born in 1971 at the University of Munich with a thesis on the subject of Thanatos and Cleophon painter. Doctorate in white-ground and red-figure vase painting from the Parthenon period . From 1991 to 2010 he taught as a full professor for Classical Archeology at the University of Salzburg , where he was also head of the Department of Classical Archeology . From 2003 to 2007 he was dean of the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences. From 1989 to 1998 he took part in excavations in Messene , since 1967 in Alt- Aegina , where he was excavation director together with Stefan Hiller from 1992 to 2010 and has published a large number of articles. Felten supervised more than 30 diploma theses, 20 doctorates and five habilitations. He translated several books by John Boardman into German and is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 2012 he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class.

Fonts

• Thanatos and Cleophon painter. White-ground and red-figure vase painting from the Parthenon period , Fink, Munich 1971 (Munich archaeological studies, vol. 3)
• Greek tectonic friezes of archaic and classical times , Stiftland, Waldsassen-Bayern 1984 (writings from the Athenaion of classical archeology Salzburg, vol. 4)
• with Walter Gauß and Rudolfine Smetana (eds.): Middle Healladic Pottery and Synchronisms. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Salzburg October 31st - November 2nd, 2004 , Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007 (Memorandum of the Gesamtakademie, vol. 42) ISBN 3-7001-3783-4

literature

• Beatrix Asamer et al. a. (Ed.): Temenos. Festgabe for Florens Felten and Stefan Hiller , Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901232-31-1
• Claus Reinholdt u. a. (Ed.): Aiakeion. Contributions to classical antiquity in honor of Florens Felten , Phoibos-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85161-026-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Florens Felten in the catalog of the German National Library