Johannes Lipps

Johannes Lipps (* 1980 in Heidelberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Growing up in Rastatt and Mannheim, Johannes Lipps completed a "Peace Service Abroad" through the Badische Landeskirche in a cultural center of the Waldensian Church in Torre Pellice (Piedmont) from 1999 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2005 he then studied classical archeology, ancient history , papyrology , epigraphy and numismatics of antiquity in Marburg (2000–2002), Rome (2002–2003) and Cologne / Bonn (2003–2006). In Cologne he was in 2008 Henner of Hesberg with a thesis on the Basilica Aemilia at Roman Forum doctorate . From 2008 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute , from 2009 to 2014 Academic Councilor at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 2014 to 2019 junior professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen . Since November 2019 he has been Professor of Classical Archeology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Lipps was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service , the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . From 2009 to 2010 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 2012 Lipps was Junior Researcher in Residence at the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich, in 2016 Senior Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence 264 Topoi in Berlin and since 2019 he has been a Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College in Mainz.

His main research interests lie in the area of ancient architecture, sculpture and urbanism and focus particularly on Rome , Pompeii and the Roman provinces from the time of the Roman Republic to late antiquity. He also works on topics relating to the history of reception and research . As part of individual and joint projects, he led excavations and documentation work on the Roman Forum, the Palatine and the Field of Mars in Rome, in the Vatican , in Pompeii, on Djerba in Tunisia and in various German cities such as Augsburg , Ladenburg and Mannheim .

Fonts (selection)

The Basilica Aemilia at the Roman Forum. The imperial building and its ornamentation (= Palilia. Volume 24). Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 3-89500-870-2 .
as editor with Carlos Machado and Philipp von Rummel : The Sack of Rome in 410 AD. The event, its context and its impact. Proceedings of the Conference held at the German Archaeological Institute at Rome, 4-6. November 2010 (= Palilia. Volume 28). Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-89500-944-0 .
as editor with Dominik Maschek: Antike Bauornamentik. Limits and possibilities of exploring them. Colloquium 2011 in Munich (= studies on the ancient city. Volume 12). Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-89500-997-6 .
Statues of kneeling Orientals from Rome and a tripod in the Olympieion of Athens. In: Roman communications from the German Archaeological Institute . Volume 122, 2016, pp. 203-252.
with Klaus Müller: Roman monumental architecture in Augsburg (= Augsburg contributions to archeology. Volume 7). Augsburg 2016, ISBN 3-95786-085-7 .
as editor: Transfer and Transformation of Roman Architecture in the Northwest Provinces. Colloquium 2015 in Tübingen (= Tübingen Archaeological Research. Volume 22). Rahden / Westf. 2017, ISBN 978-3-89646-913-7 .
The stucco ceiling of the oecus tetrastylus from the so-called Augustus house on the Palatine Hill in the context of antique ceiling decorations (= Tübingen Archaeological Research. Volume 25). Rahden / Westf. 2018, ISBN 3-89646-916-9 .
as editor with Anna Pawlak: Antiquity in print. Between imagination and empiricism. Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the Institute for Classical Archeology and the Art History Institute in the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, Hohentübingen Castle July 13th – 9th. September 2018 (= writings of MUT. Volume 17). Tübingen 2018, ISBN 3-9819182-1-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Lipps, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg