Jens-Arne Dickmann

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Jens-Arne Dickmann (* 1960 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Jens-Arne Dickmann studied from 1981 to 1983 at the University of Freiburg and from 1983 to 1988 at the University of Munich Classical Archeology , Ancient History , Near Eastern Archeology and Christian Archeology . He was a fellow of studienstiftung . In 1988 he completed his master's degree with a thesis on the late antique houses in Ostia Antica . From 1989 to 1992 he held a doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . He received his doctorate in 1992 at the University of Munich under Paul Zanker with a thesis on the structures of space and representative living using the example of the town houses of Pompeii . In 1992/93 Dickmann received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , and from 1994 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the research archive for ancient plastic at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Cologne . In the winter semester 1994/95 Dickmann had a teaching position at the TU Cottbus in the subject of building history . From 1995 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich. Since October 2001 Dickmann has been Academic Councilor since 2004 Senior Councilor at the Department of Classical Archeology at the Institute for Classical Studies at Heidelberg University . After an interim curature, he became curator of the archaeological collection at the University of Freiburg in 2012 . With Kai Trampedach , Stephan Westphalen and Christian Witschel , Dickmann was part of the project from 2011 to 2015 in the Collaborative Research Center 933 “Material Text Cultures” at Heidelberg University.

From 1997 to 2002, Dickmann and Felix Pirson carried out excavation, documentation and conservation work in the Casa dei Postumii on behalf of the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Pompeii . On behalf of the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Cologne, he is working on the Earl of Pembroke's collection of antiquities in Wilton House and its history, and as a post-doctoral project he deals with ideas about childhood in classical Athens. In addition to the excavations in Pompeii, he deals with the use of the public street space in the city. He has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2011.

Fonts (selection)

  • domus frequentata. Sophisticated living in a Pompeian town house . Pfeil, Munich 1999 (Studies on the Ancient City, Volume 4) ISBN 3-931516-52-0 (= dissertation).
  • Pompeii. Archeology and History ( Beck's Knowledge Series ). CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-50887-1 ; 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-50887-5 ; 3rd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70267-9 ; Italian: Mulino, Bologna 2007, ISBN 978-88-15-11651-2 .
  • Editor with Harald Meller : Catastrophes on Vesuvius. Pompeii, Nola, Herculaneum. (= Catalog of the exhibition of the State Museum for Prehistory Halle / Saale 2011–2012), Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-3801-6 .
  • Editor with Francesco De Angelis , Ralf von den Hoff and Felix Pirson : Art from below? Style and society in the ancient world from the 'arte plebea' to the present day . (= Contributions to a colloquium on the occasion of P. Zanker's 70th birthday, Rome Villa Massimo, June 8–9, 2007), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-89500-915-0 .
  • Editor with Harald Meller and R. Diederen: Pompeji. Life on the volcano. (= Catalog of the exhibition of the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich 2013–2014), Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2092-9 .
  • Editor with Alexander Heinemann: From drinking and cups. The ancient feast in upheaval; Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Archaeological Collection of the University of Freiburg, April 26 - June 28, 2015. Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049322-5 .

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SURNAME Dickmann, Jens-Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960