Jochen Griesbach

Jochen Griesbach (born May 24, 1970 in Cologne ) is a German classical archaeologist .

After graduating from high school at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, Jochen Griesbach studied classical archeology, Latin philology , theater , film and television studies as well as philosophy at the Universities of Cologne , Bonn , Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin . In 1997 he obtained his Magister Artium at the University of Cologne with a thesis on structural analyzes of the imperial necropolis of Rome. This was followed by research stays in Rome between 1998 and 2001, where Griesbach conducted research in collaboration with the municipal Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma . In 1999/2000 he was a scholarship holder in the Graduate School Formation and Self-Presentation of Urban Elites in the Roman Empire at the University of Cologne, in 2003 he became a research assistant on the PHAROS project , where online study units were created for the courses in Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Classical Philology . In 2003/04 he represented Lutgarde Vandeput as an assistant at the research archive for ancient sculpture at the University of Cologne. With work mansions and tombs. Imperial settlement and burial sites in the suburb of Rome based on the findings of the Tenuta Radicicoli Maffei , Griesbach received his doctorate in July 2006 at the University of Cologne under Henner von Hesberg .

From October 2007 to June 2011 he was an assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich . After completing his habilitation in June 2011 with the work on the topography of ancient statues of honor in the Hellenistic East. Designing and constituting 'political' spaces through public and private portrait statues , he worked there as an academic senior councilor until March 2012. He was on leave from February 2010 to January 2011 and did research at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens as a fellow of the German Research Foundation .

In April 2012 Griesbach became a curator at the antiquities collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum at the University of Würzburg , and since October 2014 he has been director of the antiquities collection of the museum. He also taught as a private lecturer at the University of Würzburg, and since March 2018 as an adjunct professor. In the summer semester of 2017 he was Thomas Schäfer's chair at the University of Tübingen , and in April 2018 he held a Hellenistic Lectures Series at Harvard , Princeton , New York , Pennsylvania , Columbia and Brown universities .

Griesbach is a member of the Mommsen Society and the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica . His research focuses on ancient portrait monuments, Roman sepulchral culture, the architecture and topography of the city of Rome, settlement archeology and urbanism as well as the semantics of figural terracottas .

Publications (selection)

• Mansions and tombs. Settlement and burial places of the Roman imperial period in the suburbium of Rome (= International Archeology Volume 103), Leiden, Rahdorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-89646-375-3 (= dissertation).
• (Ed.): Greek-Egyptian. Clay figures from the Nile. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2778-8 .
• (Ed.): Polis and portrait. Still images as media of public representation in the Hellenistic East. (= Studies on the Ancient City, Volume 13), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95490-009-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jochen Griesbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the website of the University of Würzburg