Hans Georg Niemeyer

Hans Georg Niemeyer (born November 30, 1933 in Hamburg ; † September 5, 2007 ) was a German classical archaeologist .

After attending the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg, Hans Georg Niemeyer studied archeology, classical philology and ancient history in Marburg and Hamburg . In addition to studying, Niemeyer completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor . In 1959 he did his doctorate in Hamburg under Ernst Homann-Wedeking on promachos. Investigations into the representation of the armed Athena in archaic times . This was followed by a scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) until 1961 . Then Niemeyer worked as an assistant to Heinz Kähler at the University of Cologne . During this time he completed his habilitation in 1966 on the subject of studies on the statuary representation of Roman emperors . From 1970 he taught as a scientific advisor and professor . In 1980 he went back to his hometown Hamburg as a professor, where he worked until his retirement .

Hans Georg Niemeyer was the head of the excavations of the Phoenician colony Toscanos near Torre del Mar ( Vélez Málaga , Málaga , Andalusia ) in southern Spain and the investigation of the Punic urban settlement structure in Carthage in Tunisia. From 1974 to 1978 Niemeyer was chairman of the German Archaeological Association . He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg , a full member of the DAI and a corresponding member of the Hispanic Society in New York , the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid and the Commissione per gli studi Fenici e Punici of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome . He died on September 5, 2007.

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Promachos. Studies on the representation of the armed Athena in archaic times , university publication, Hamburg 1958 (also in 1960 at Stiftland-Verlag Waldsassen / Bavaria) (dissertation).
Studies on the statuary representation of the Roman emperors , university publication, Cologne 1966 (also in the Monumenta artis Romanae series, Volume 7 in Mann-Verlag Berlin, 1968) (habilitation).
Introduction to archeology , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1968, 4th edition 1995 (The archeology. Introductions).
Phoenicians in the West (Ed.), Von Zabern, Mainz 1982 (Madrid Articles, Volume 8).
with Rudolf Pörtner: The great adventures of archeology. Andreas Verlag, Salzburg 1984.
The early Carthage and the Phoenician expansion in the Mediterranean area , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989 (Publication of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences No. 60).
The Phoenicians in Homer's Age (with Ulrich Gehrig), von Zabern, Mainz 1990.
Semata. on the meaning of Greek statues , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996 (reports from the meetings of the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften eV, Hamburg, vol. 14, no.1).
Carthage - the old trading metropolis on the Mediterranean. An archaeological dig (with Angela Rindelaub and Karin Schmidt), Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg (Helms Museum), Hamburg 1996.

Portrait in Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie Vol. 13 (1996/97), p. 148.
Hermanfrid Schubart : In memoriam Hans Georg Niemeyer . In: Madrider Mitteilungen 50, 2009, pp. 355–374 (with a complete list of publications)