Klaus Rheidt

Klaus Rheidt (* 1955 in Neuss ) is a German building researcher .

Klaus Rheidt studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe between 1975 and 1984 , where he was also a research assistant at the Institute for Building History from 1979 to 1989. From 1978 to 1989 he regularly took part in the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in Pergamon , and in 1984 in Carthage . From 1985 to 1989, Rheidt worked on the Byzantine residential town of Pergamon as a research fellow of the German Archaeological Institute , and in 1988/1989 he traveled to the Mediterranean as holder of the German Archaeological Institute's travel grant .

Rheidt's doctorate as Dr.-Ing. took place in 1989 with the dissertation The Byzantine City of Pergamon . In 1990 he became a research assistant in the subproject A2 Studies on the History of Building Construction and Engineering of the Collaborative Research Center 315 Preservation of Historically Significant Buildings of the German Research Foundation , which was located at the Institute for Building History at the University of Karlsruhe. In the following year, Rheidt moved to the German Archaeological Institute, where he became a consultant for building research at the Istanbul department and headed the excavations of the institute in Aizanoi . In 1994 he moved to Berlin to the headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute, where he became a consultant for ancient building research; the research within the framework of the Baalbek project takes place there under his direction. Rheidt has held the chair for building history at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus and Cottbus-Senftenberg since 2002 .

Rheidt was married to the building researcher Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt until her death in 2018 .

Fonts

• The Byzantine residential city (= antiquities of Pergamon. Volume 15: The city excavation. Part 2). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1991, ISBN 3-11-012621-4 .
• with Ulrike Wulf : The Matthias Chapel on the Oberburg near Kobern (= materials on building research and building history. Volume 2, ISSN  0940-578X ). Institute for Building History, Karlsruhe 1991.
• as editor with Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner : Stadt und Umland. New results from archaeological building and settlement research (= discussions on archaeological building research. Volume 7). von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2520-7 .
• as editor with Barbara Anna Lutz: Peter Behrens, Theodor Wiegand and the villa in Dahlem. von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3374-9 .
• as editor with Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner : Power of Architecture - Architecture of Power (= discussions on archaeological building research. Volume 8). von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3382-X .
• as editor: Aizanoi and Anatolia. New discoveries about history and archeology in the highlands of western Asia Minor (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . ). von Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4169-1 .

Web links

• Portrait on the website of the BTU Cottbus