Konrad Zimmermann

Konrad Johannes Ernst Zimmermann (born June 18, 1940 in Plovdiv , then Tsarist Bulgaria ) is a German classical archaeologist .

life and career

Konrad Zimmermann was born in Bulgaria, where his father Johannes Zimmermann taught as a high school teacher at the German School in Plovdiv. After his father was drafted into the Wehrmacht , his mother returned with him in 1942 to their families of origin in the Ore Mountains . After the war, the family moved to Königs Wusterhausen so that his father, who was blind during the war, could again practice his profession as a teacher of Latin, ancient Greek and mathematics at the local school for the blind . In 1959 Konrad Zimmermann passed his A-levels at the " Grauen Kloster ", the only old-language grammar school in East Berlin at the time.

After graduating from high school, Konrad Zimmermann began studying classical archeology and ancient oriental studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1964 he passed his diploma examination and became a research assistant to Gottfried von Lücken at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Rostock . The doctorate on the subject of Athena statues in Dresden It was acquired and its position in the development of the Greek athena image as a contribution to the history of the Dresden Collection of Antiquities took place in December 1969. Judges were Ludger Alscher and Gottfried von Lücken. 1983 followed the PhD B on the subject of roof terracottas from the Greek period from Histria. Studies on the typology, dating and distribution of ceramic components in the Black Sea area . In addition to Petre Alexandrescu and Wolfgang Schindler , Ludger Alscher was again the reviewer . In 1972 Zimmermann became a senior assistant in Rostock, where he was the only representative of his subject until the subject was restructured after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1992. From his habilitation in 1987 until 1992 he was a university lecturer in classical archeology. After the reorganization of the university due to the turnaround, Zimmermann was appointed professor in Rostock in 1992. In 2005 he retired and was succeeded by Detlev Wannagat .

From 1991 to 1995 Zimmermann was the spokesman for the newly founded Heinrich Schliemann Institute for Classical Studies and played a key role in its development. From 1990 until his retirement he was a member of the Council of the Philosophical Faculty without interruption and served two terms of office - from 1994 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2000 - as its vice dean. From 1990 to 1996 and 1998 to 2004 he was a member of the council. As a professor, Zimmermann was also director of the archaeological collection and of the university's former Academic Coin Cabinet. From 1991 to 1994 he was the local chairman of the Rostock Association of German Universities and from 1992 to 1996 he was a board member of the German Association of Archaeologists . From 1993 to 1997 Zimmermann was a member of the study committee of the Mommsen Society . He has been a member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) since 1990 and was a representative of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg in the central management of the DAI from 1994 to 2008 .

Zimmermann worked on several major projects in the area of classical antiquity in the GDR. In addition, he mainly researched Greek and Roman sculpture as well as Greek ceramics and roof terracottas. A research focus is the Black Sea archeology , Histria he participated in excavations. Zimmermann also deals with the history of classical archeology, in particular the biographies of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Heinrich Schliemann .

Fonts (selection)

Greek cabaret. Sculptures, vases, bronzes, terracottas, coins , Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock 1973
Greek vases from the 7th to 4th centuries , Insel, Leipzig 1973 (several editions, including in the West German Frankfurter Insel-Verlag: ISBN 3-458-08980-2 )
The Dresden antiques and Winckelmann (ed.), Academy, Berlin 1977 (writings of the Winckelmann Society, vol. 4)
Roman portraits (with Huberta Heres and Hans Hoffmann), Staatliche Museen - Antikensammlung, Berlin 1981

literature

Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 663.

Web links

Literature by and about Konrad Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Konrad Zimmermann in the state bibliography MV
Entry on Konrad Zimmermann in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

^ Konrad Zimmermann: Classical Archeology - Contemporary witness report on June 15, 2007 . In: Kersten Krüger (ed.): The University of Rostock between socialism and university renewal. Contemporary witnesses report , part 2. Rostock University, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-86009-027-5 , pp. 199ff. (Rostock studies on university history, online )

personal data
SURNAME	Zimmermann, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zimmermann, Konrad Johannes Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plovdiv

[1] Konrad Zimmermann: Classical Archeology - Contemporary witness report on June 15, 2007 . In: Kersten Krüger (ed.): The University of Rostock between socialism and university renewal. Contemporary witnesses report , part 2. Rostock University, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-86009-027-5 , pp. 199ff. (Rostock studies on university history, online )