Gunnar Brands

Gunnar Brands (born March 30, 1956 in Duisburg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Gunnar Brands grew up in Duisburg and passed his Abitur there in 1975 at the Staatlich Altsprachliche Landfermann-Gymnasium . Since 1977 he has been studying Classical and Christian Archeology, Ancient History and Latin in Bonn, Heidelberg and Rome, and since 1979 architecture at RWTH Aachen University . In 1985 he received his doctorate in the field of early Roman architecture in Italy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn under Hanns Gabelmann in the field of classical archeology . After receiving a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , he had been a research fellow at the Sana'a branch of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in the Yemeni Arab Republic since 1987 . From 1988 to 1994 Brands was assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1994 with a thesis on late antique architecture in Syria. In the same year he became a senior assistant at the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus . Brands has been professor of Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History at the Institute for Oriental Archeology and Art History at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg since 1996 . In 1993/94 and 2000/01 he was a Fellow for Byzantine Studies in Dumbarton Oaks and a Fulbright Fellow . He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Brands researches primarily on late antique and early Christian architecture of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire , in particular Syria , Asia Minor and South Arabia , on the architectural ornamentation of late antiquity and the topography of eastern Christianity, but also on Hellenistic and Roman architecture and the afterlife of antiquity between the Renaissance and the 20th century. Brands most recently worked in Antakya / Turkey, ancient Antioch on the Orontes .

Publications

• as co-editor with Martin Maischberger : Lebensbilder. Classical Archaeologists and National Socialism Vol. 1, Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westphalia 2012, ISBN 978-3-86757-382-5 ; Vol. 2, Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86757-394-8 .
• Antioch in late antiquity. Prolegomena to an archaeological city history. (= Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen , Volume 14), de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-044323-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gunnar Brands in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV and list of publications on the website of the University of Halle
• Brands, Gunnar .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .