Friedhelm Prayon

Friedhelm Prayon in front of Hohentübingen Castle on November 22, 2005

Friedhelm Prayon (born April 20, 1941 in Bochum ) is a German Etruscanologist .

Friedhelm Prayon received his doctorate in 1970 under Heinrich Drerup at the University of Marburg on Etruscan tomb and house architecture. In 1970/1971 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and worked in Rome from 1972 to 1977 as a research assistant in the DAI's photo library and as a research grant from the DFG (“Architectural Representations on Roman Reliefs and Coins”). In 1977 Prayon became a research assistant in Tübingen and completed his habilitation there in 1985 on Phrygian sculpture. After working for one year in the editorial office of the DAI Berlin, Prayon returned to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 1988 to the newly established chair for Etruscan-Italic archeology and stayed there until he was released from active service in July 2006.

From 1984 to 1991 Prayon carried out field research together with the University of Perugia in the Etruscan Cannicella necropolis of Orvieto , and from 1995 to 2001 in the Etruscan settlement of Castellina del Marangone near Civitavecchia . Friedhelm Prayon has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1979 and a Membro straniero of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence since 1982 .

Fonts (selection)

• Early Etruscan tomb and house architecture (= communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Roman Department . Supplement 22). Heidelberg 1975.
• Phrygian plastic. The early Iron Age visual art of Central Anatolia and its relationship to Greece and the ancient Orient (= Tübingen studies on archeology and art history. Volume 7). Tübingen 1987.
• with A.-M. Wittke: Asia Minor from 12th to 6th century BC Chr. Mapping and explanation of archaeological findings and monuments . Wiesbaden 1994.
• The Etruscans. History, religion, art ( CH Beck knowledge ). Beck, Munich 1996; 5th edition 2010.
• The Etruscans - Concepts of the afterlife and ancestral cult (= ancient world . Special issue; Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ). Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3619-5 .

Web links

Commons : Friedhelm Prayon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedhelm Prayon in the catalog of the German National Library