Klaus Parlasca

Klaus Parlasca (born September 23, 1925 in Potsdam ; † April 6, 2020 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical archaeologist .

From 1943 Klaus Parlasca studied classical archeology, ancient history and art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After military service and captivity, he studied from 1945 to 1949 at the University of Göttingen , from 1949 to 1950 at the University of Basel, Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Egyptology . In 1950 he received his doctorate in Göttingen .

With a grant from the German Research Foundation , he examined evidence of Roman wall painting in Germany from 1951 to 1954 . During this time he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , with which he traveled to the Mediterranean countries from 1952 to 1953. From 1954 to 1960 he was an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , where he completed his habilitation in 1960 and from 1966 worked as an adjunct professor. From 1971 until his retirement in 1990 he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Klaus Parlasca's main research areas included Roman mosaic art and wall painting, especially in Germany, as well as the Greek and Roman portraits in Egypt, with particular emphasis on mummy portraits . In addition, he was interested in the Greek and Roman art of Egypt and Syria , especially the Palmyrenian funerary art. The reception of antiquities during the classicism period was another of his areas of interest.

Fonts (selection)

• The Roman mosaics in Germany (= Roman-Germanic research. 23, ISSN  0176-5337 ). de Gruyter, Berlin 1959, doi : 10.11588 / diglit.43201 .
• Mummy portraits and related monuments. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1966.
• Ritratti di mummie (= Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano. Ser. B, Vol. 1–4). 4 volumes. Fondazione Ignazio Mormino del Banco di Sicilia, Palermo et al. 1969–2003, (corpus of almost all known mummy portraits).
• as editor with Hellmut Seemann : Moments. Mummy portraits and Egyptian funerary art from Roman times. (For the exhibition Moments - Mummy Portraits and Egyptian Funerary Art from Roman Times, in the Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt (January 30th to April 11th, 1999)). Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7814-0423-4 .

literature

• Christoph Börker , Michael Donderer (Ed.): Ancient Rome and the East. Festschrift for Klaus Parlasca for his 65th birthday (= Erlanger research. Series A: Humanities. 56). Universitäts-Bund Erlangen-Nürnberg eVua, Erlangen 1990, ISBN 3-922135-69-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Parlasca in the catalog of the German National Library
• For the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Klaus Parlasca , press release from the Institute for Classical Archeology and Collection of Antiquities at the University of Erlangen on September 22, 2000 (accessed on April 18, 2020)