Hans-Ulrich Cain

Hans-Ulrich Cain (born November 21, 1951 in Nuremberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Hans-Ulrich Cain is the son of the physician Hans Cain . Between 1972 and 1980 he studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History , Greek and Art History at the University of Munich , the University of Würzburg , the University of Bern , the University of Göttingen , the University of Bonn and the Sapienza in Rome . As a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service , he stayed in Rome and central Italy in 1978 . At the end of December 1980, Cain received his doctorate from Paul Zanker in Munich with a thesis on Roman marble candelabra .

Then Cain was a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Munich. 1982/83 Cain was traveling scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute and from 1983 to 1985 Research Fellow at the Archaeological German Institute in Rome , where he Head of the photo library was. In 1985, Cain first became a university assistant and later a senior assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Bonn. There, in 1991, he completed his habilitation with the work of Dionysus statues from the late Classical and Hellenistic periods . In 1992 he moved to the State Museum for Casts of Classical Art in Munich as senior curator and took a professorial qualification in Munich in order to also teach as a private lecturer at the University of Munich . From May 1997, Cain was professor of classical archeology at the University of Leipzig and successor to Eberhard Paul . There he was head of the Institute for Classical Archeology and director of the Ancient Museum with the plaster cast collection . He retired in 2017.

Cain is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Fonts (selection)

Roman marble candelabra. von Zabern, Mainz 1985 (Contributions to the development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture, Vol. 7) ISBN 3-8053-0798-5
(Co-editor): Festschrift for Nikolaus Himmelmann. Contributions to iconography and hermeneutics. von Zabern, Mainz 1989 ( Bonner yearbooks of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn and the Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege in the Landschaftsverband Rheinland and the Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande . Supplements, Vol. 47) ISBN 3-8053-1033-1

personal data
SURNAME	Cain, Hans-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg