Gerhard Neumann (archaeologist)

Gerhard Neumann (born October 20, 1931 in Liessau ; † December 12, 2000 in Athens ) was a German classical archaeologist .

After finishing school in Lübeck, Gerhard Neumann studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History , Philosophy and Egyptology in Tübingen , Munich and London . In 1960 he received his doctorate from Bernhard Schweitzer in Tübingen and then received a two-year travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . This was followed by five years as a consultant in the Athens department of the German Archaeological Institute , from 1969 a scientific assistant in Tübingen, then in 1972 the habilitation and from 1978 to 1997 a professorship for classical archeology at the University of Tübingen. Since 1968 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute; 1982/83 member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton . Neumann carried out important research on Greek gestures and signs, especially on classical Greek sculpture and on philhellenism in the 19th century.

Fonts

• Gestures and Signs in Greek Art . Berlin 1965 (dissertation).
• Problems of the Greek consecration relief . Tübingen 1979 (habilitation thesis).
• On the relationship between funerary memorials and epitaphs in the archaic and classical periods of Greece . In: Word and Image . Munich 1979, pp. 219-235
• Carl Haller: the artist in contemporary Athens . In: Carl Haller von Hallerstein in Greece . Berlin 1986, pp. 73-77. 125

literature

• Pascal Weitmann : Obituary for Gerhard Neumann . In: Attempto. Tübinger Universitäts-Zeitung 21, 2001, p. 100.
• Georgios I Despinis : Βιογραφικά στοιχεία και δημοσιεύματα του Gerhard Neumann . In: Επιτυμβιον Gerhard Neumann. Commemorative publication for Gerhard Neumann . Athens 2003, pp. 11-13.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library