Klaus Staehler

Klaus Peter Stähler (born February 15, 1939 in Dortmund ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Klaus Stähler studied classical archeology, classical philology and art history between 1958 and 1963 . He completed his studies in 1963 with a doctorate on The Unclassical in the Telephos Frieze. The friezes of the Pergamon Altar as part of the Hellenistic sculpture at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . There he was then involved as curator from 1965 to 1994 with the development of an archaeological teaching collection. In 1975 he also became a lecturer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , and later at the Münster Art Academy . In 1980 he completed his habilitation and in 1980/81 he was the archaeological professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1982 Stähler became professor for archeology at the University of Münster. In 1995 he founded the research project The Greeks and their Neighbors . Since 1999 he has also participated in German-Russian excavations on the Taman Peninsula . Between 2000 and 2002 he worked on the Collaborative Research Center Functions of Religion in the Ancient Societies of the Middle East of the German Research Foundation . In 2004 Stähler retired.

Stähler has been co-editor of the trade journal Boreas since 1984 and of the Eikon series since 1992 . Contributions to ancient imagery . Research stays took him to the USA, where he was the holder of the America Scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute , as well as to China and Japan on the occasion of studies on the Silk Road . Stähler primarily deals with Greek vase painting and ancient sculpture. The Münster Art Academy awarded Stähler an honorary doctorate in 2001 .

Fonts

• The unclassical in the Telephos frieze. The friezes of the Pergamon Altar as part of the Hellenistic sculpture , Aschendorff, Münster 1966 (Orbis antiquus, issue 23)
• An unknown pelike of the painter of the Eucharides in the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster , Böhlau, Graz-Cologne 1967 (Münster research, volume 17)
• Heroes and gods of the Greeks. For the 200th anniversary of the University of Münster in 1980 , Archäolog. University Museum, Münster 1980
• Greek vases from Westphalian collections , Aschendorff, Münster 1984 ISBN 3-402-05246-6
• Greek historical images of the classical period , Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1992 (Eikon, Volume 1)
• Form and function. Works of art as a means of political expression , Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1993 ISBN 3-927120-13-8 (Eikon, Volume 2)
• On the importance of the format , Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1996 ISBN 3-927120-25-1 (Eikon, Volume 3)
• Publisher: On Graeco-Scythian Art , Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1997 ISBN 3-927120-57-X (Eikon, Volume 4)
• The Alexander mosaic. About power struggle and loss of power , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999 ISBN 3-596-13149-9
• The ruler as a plowman and sower. Dominant images from the plant world , Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2001 ISBN 3-934628-09-5 (Eikon, Volume 6)
• Editor with Gabriele Gudrian: The Greeks and their neighbors on the northern edge of the Black Sea. Contributions to the International Archaeological Colloquium Münster 2001 , Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2009 ISBN 978-3-86835-024-1 (Eikon, Volume 9)

literature

• Jörg Gebauer (editor): Picture history. Festschrift Klaus Stähler , Bibliopolis, Möhnesee 2004 ISBN 3-933925-59-2

Web links

• Portrait on the website of the University of Münster
• Literature by and about Klaus Stähler in the catalog of the German National Library