Franz Jäger (art historian)

Franz Jäger (born June 6, 1961 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German art historian and epigraphist .

Jäger studied classical archeology and art history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Since 1996 he has been a research assistant at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig for the research project The German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age . In 2005 he was with a dissertation on the subject of inscriptions as evidence of historical and artistic changes to Dr. phil. doctorate and in 2008 accepted into the commission for the art history of Central Germany at the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

From 2006 to 2015, Jäger was honorary chairman of the board of the Friends of the Buildings and Art Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt e. V. He is an author, reviewer and editor of numerous specialist publications.

Publications (selection)

• The inscriptions of the city of Wittenberg. (Ed. Together with Jens Pickenhan) Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019; ISBN 978-3-95490-437-2 .
• Church at the turn of the ages - the market church of our dear women in Halle in the late Middle Ages and the Reformation period. (Ed.) Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2013; ISBN 978-3-95462-123-1 .
• The inscriptions of the city of Halle an der Saale. (Ed.) Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012; ISBN 978-3-89500-922-8 .
• Built in the French way. On the architecture of the Central German early Renaissance. (Ed. Together with Anke Neugebauer) Kratzke Verlag, Bielefeld 2010; ISBN 978-3-9811555-2-5 .
• The inscriptions of the Weißenfels district. (Editing) Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005; ISBN 3-89500-432-4 .
• Inscriptions as evidence of historical and artistic changes. (Dissertation) 2 volumes, Halle 2005.
• Shape, function, meaning - commemorative publication for Friedrich Möbius on his 70th birthday. (Ed.) Glaux Verlag, Jena 1999; ISBN 3-931743-24-1
• Dehio . Handbook of German Art Monuments - Thuringia. (Ed.) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998; ISBN 3-422-03050-6 .

Web links

• Entry about Fanz Jäger in OPAC University Library Halle
• Works by and about Franz Jäger  in the German Digital Library