Hermann J. Kienast

Hermann J. Kienast (born March 14, 1943 in Stätzling near Augsburg ) is a German building researcher .

Life

Hermann Kienast studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , where he received his diploma in 1970. He specialized in Gottfried pits on ancient building research, was his assistant from 1971 to 1972 and in 1974 a doctorate . In 1972 he became a consultant for building research at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute , whose second director he was from 1984 until his retirement in 2005. In 1993 he was at Munich Technical University habilitated .

Since his studies, Kienast's main research area has been the island of Samos , in particular the city wall, the tunnel of Eupalinos and the Heraion of Samos , where he led the excavations from 1987 to 2004. In Athens he examined and published the Tower of the Winds .

Hermann Kienast has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens since 2001 and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Publications (selection)

• The city wall of Samos (= Samos vol. 15). Habelt, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-7749-1419-2 (= dissertation).
• with Andreas E. Furtwängler : The north building in the Heraion of Samos (= Samos vol. 3). Habelt, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-7749-2377-9 .
• The aqueduct of the Eupalinos on Samos. (= Samos vol. 19). Habelt, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-7749-2713-8 .
• The Tower of the Winds in Athens (= Archaeological Research Vol. 30). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95490-024-4 .

Web links

• Hermann J. Kienast at prabook.org ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Short biography at Reichert-Verlag