Klaus Junker

Klaus Junker (born September 18, 1958 in Herbolzheim) is a German classical archaeologist .

Klaus Junker finished his studies in 1988 with the passed examination for the Magister Artium at the Free University of Berlin . Three years later he was there with a thesis on The Elder Temple in Heraion am Sele . Doctorate in Ornate Metopes in an Architectural Context . In 1992 he received the Ernst Reuter Prize for his dissertation. After completing his doctorate, he was a research assistant at the headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin , where he was responsible for looking after the archive. This activity resulted in a work on the history of the DAI between 1929 and 1945, which was based on the institute's archives. During this time he was a lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 1991/92 and again in 1994 . In 1994 he moved to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as a research assistant . The habilitation took place in 2001 with the work Sagenbild und Mythoskritik. Hermeneutic studies of Greek legends from the 6th and 5th centuries BC Chr. In Mainz . He then became a university lecturer and private lecturer , since October 2008 he has been a research assistant and as such a teacher for special tasks and study manager archeology . In 2011 Junker was appointed Associate Professor.

Junker is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation . He is mainly concerned with Greek sculpture , architecture and vase painting , hermeneutics and the history of science .

Fonts

• The older temple in Heraion am Sele. Ornate metopes in an architectural context. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-412-11292-5 . (Work on archeology)
• The Archaeological Institute of the German Empire between research and politics. The years 1929 to 1945. von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-2339-5 .
• Pseudo-Homerica. Art and Epic in Late Archaic Athens. ( Winckelmann programs of the Archaeological Society of Berlin 141). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-018034-0 .
• Greek myth images. An introduction to their interpretation. Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-01987-X .
  • English translation: Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths. An Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2012, ISBN 978-0-521-89582-8 .
• with Sabrina Strohwald: gods as inventors. The Origin of Culture in Greek Art. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt / Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4479-1 .
• with Sina Tauchert: Helena's daughters. Women and Fashion in Early Greece. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-80534-858-4 .
• Editor: From Myth and Lifeworld. Greek vases from the collection of the University of Mainz. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1999, ISBN 3-88462-157-2 .
• Editor with Adrian Stähli : original and copy. Forms and concepts of imitation in ancient art. Files from the colloquium in Berlin, 17. – 19. February 2005. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-89500-629-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Junker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the website of the University of Mainz
• Blog: Materia classica