Gerhard Koeppel

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Gerhard Koeppel (born October 30, 1936 in Nuremberg ; † December 20, 2012 in Erlangen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Gerhard Koeppel was the son of a pharmacist. He spent the first nine years in Marktredwitz . His family moved to America after the war. In Cincinnati , he attended elementary school and high school. In 1954 the family settled in Lindau . For three and a half years he attended the École Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Lausanne . 1958 followed in Friborg the examen fédéral de maturité . In March 1959 he passed the supplementary examination at the Uhland grammar school in Tübingen. This enabled him to study at a German university. Koeppel was a guest student in Tübingen for two semesters . He then studied in Tübingen (1959–1962) and from 1962 in Cologne . In the winter semester 1966/67 he received his doctorate with Heinz Kähler with the thesis Profectio and Adventus . Since 1968 he has taught and researched in the Classics Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . From 1970 until his retirement he taught there as a professor. In the meantime, he also repeatedly taught for some time in Rome as a professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (1980, 1989, 1998). From 1986 to 1988 he was Director of the Summer School at the American Academy in Rome .

Since his dissertation Koeppel has specialized in Roman statecraft. He worked on a corpus of the Roman state reliefs , which in research also became known as historical reliefs . His research was published in nine parts under the title The historical reliefs of the Roman Empire in the Bonner Jahrbücher Vol. 183 (1983) to Vol. 192 (1992). Koeppel was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

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  • Profectio and Adventus. In: Bonner Jahrbücher , Vol. 169 (1969), pp. 131–194.

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SURNAME Koeppel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2012
Place of death gain