Hartmut Schäfer

Hartmut Schäfer (* 1943 ) is a German medieval archeologist and art historian .

Schäfer studied at the Universities of Göttingen , Munich and Istanbul . In 1970 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on Gül Camii , a Byzantine church in Constantinople . He then received a scholarship at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich and a 1971/72 travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . After a brief activity at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Munich, he worked in medieval archeology at the State Monuments Office in Baden-Württemberg from January 1, 1974 . From 1987 until his retirement on January 31, 2008 he was head of the Archeology of the Middle Ages department. He was involved in numerous excavations and building studies in Baden-Württemberg .

Publications (selection)

• The Gül Camii in Istanbul. A contribution to the Middle Byzantine church architecture of Constantinople (= Istanbuler Mitteilungen Supplement 7). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1973.
• Byzantine architecture (= Heyne-Stilkunde 9) Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-41209-5 .
• History, archeology and building research in Esslingen (= material booklets for archeology in Baden-Württemberg 64). Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1684-3 .
• The beginnings of Stuttgart. From the mare garden to the Württemberg residence. Belser, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7630-2610-4 .

literature

• Stratigraphy and structure. Contributions to the archeology of the Middle Ages and modern times and to historical building research. Festschrift for Hartmut Schäfer on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 28) Theiss, Stuttgart 2008 (p. 13–16 List of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hartmut Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Publications by Hartmut Schäfer in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Die Welt, Stuttgart: Archaeologists get to the bottom of the city's history. In the cellar of the old castle and in the collegiate church, archaeologists have investigated the history of Stuttgart (with a picture by Hartmut Schäfer).