Jutta Dresken-Weiland

Jutta Dresken-Weiland (born May 24, 1963 in Lünen ) is a German Christian archaeologist .

Life

Jutta Dresken-Weiland graduated from high school in Lünen in 1982 and then began studying classical archeology , ancient history and ancient oriental antiquity at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1984 she moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where she now took Christian archeology instead of ancient Near Eastern antiquity. The doctorate in classical archeology took place there in 1990 with the work Reliefed table tops from Theodosian times . She then worked for six years at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute , initially as an editor with the bibliography of the Byzantine Journal , later as a consultant for Christian archeology, where she mainly dealt with the repertory of Christian ancient sarcophagi . The DAI travel grant , which she received in 1991/92 , also fell into her Roman times .

In 1996 Dresken-Weiland moved to Regensburg , where she also held teaching positions at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Regensburg , from 1997 to 2002 as the holder of a postdoctoral fellowship. The habilitation took place in 2002 with the writing Sarkophagbestattungen des 4. – 6. Jhs. in the west of the Roman Empire . Since 2003 she has been teaching as a private lecturer at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and has been an adjunct professor there since December 2009 . From 2004 to 2006 she worked with Andreas Merkt at the University of Regensburg on the project Concepts of Death in Early Christian Grave Inscriptions of the German Research Foundation (DFG), from 2007 to 2010 on the DFG project Images and Inscriptions as Sources for Early Christians' Concepts of the Beyond . Both projects have been completed and published. In 2011 and 2013 she was employed as a research assistant at the University of Regensburg.

Jutta Dresken-Weiland has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine Antiquité tardive and representative of German colleagues in the Association pour l'Antiquité tardive since 2002 . Since 2004 she has been one of the co-editors of the Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history .

Jutta Dresken-Weiland is involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land and is a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . In 1999 she was the Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Furno for Lady of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and appointed on 23 October 1999 at the Freiburg Cathedral by Bishop Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy, the Order invested . Since 2016 she has been the chief commander of the Regensburg Commandery.

Dresken-Weiland has been married to the publisher Albrecht Weiland , Verlag Schnell und Steiner , since 1990 and has two children. She has been responsible for archeology at the publishing house since 2015.

Fonts (selection)

• Relief table tops from Theodosian times . Città del Vaticano 1991 ( Studi di antichità cristiana 41).
• Repertory of the Christian ancient sarcophagi. Vol. 2, Italy. With an addendum: Rome and Ostia, Dalmatia, museums of the world . von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-1989-4 .
• Sarcophagus burials from the 4th to 6th centuries in the west of the Roman Empire . Herder, Rome a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-451-26255-X ( Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history . Supplement 55).
• Image, grave and word. Investigations into the afterlife notions of Christians of the 3rd and 4th century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010 (Italian: Immagine e parola. Alle origini dell'iconografia cristiana . Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City 2012).
• together with A. Merkt and A. Angerstorfer: Himmel, Paradies, Schalom. Death and the afterlife in ancient Christian and Jewish grave inscriptions. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2012.
• The early Christian mosaics of Ravenna - image and meaning , Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7954-3024-5 .

Web links

• Dresken-Weiland on the website of the University of Göttingen
• Dresken-Weiland on the website of the University of Regensburg