Lambert Schneider (archaeologist)

Lambert Schneider (born January 26, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Schneider is the son of the publisher of the same name . After graduating from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg, he studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History, Byzantine Studies and Art History at the Universities of Heidelberg, New York and Freiburg from 1961 to 1968 . In 1969 he was trained by Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt in Freiburg with the topic “Asymmetries of Greek heads from the 5th century BC. Until Hellenism ”. In 1968 and 1969 he worked as an assistant at the Archaeological Institute in Bochum. In 1969 and 1970 he went on a research trip to the Soviet Union.

Since 1971 he has been working at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg . In 1981 he was there with a thesis on “The domain as a world view. Effective structures of the late antique imagery " habilitation and then worked as a lecturer. Since 1984, together with Peter Zazoff, he has led a scientific exchange program between the universities of Sofia and Hamburg, and from 1986 he worked - also together with Zazoff - in a research project on Thracian visual language. In the course of this, research trips took him again to the Soviet Union and then to Romania and Bulgaria. In 1987 he was awarded the academic title of Professor in Hamburg.

In 1992 and 1993 he was Adolf Borbein's chair at the Free University of Berlin , and in 1996 he was a scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. He retired in 2009.

Schneider is (co-) editor of the journal Hephaistos (volumes 1–11 / 12, and again from volume 23), a specialist journal for archeology and related sciences that has been published since 1979 and is now available in 25 volumes.

Fonts (selection)

• Asymmetry of Greek heads from the 5th century to Hellenism. F. Steiner-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1973.
• On the social significance of the archaic Koren statues (= Hamburg contributions to archeology. Supplement 2). Publisher H. Buske, Hamburg 1975.
• The domain as a worldview. Effective structures of late antique imagery. F. Steiner-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1983
• with Christoph Höcker: Phidias. Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek 1993
• with Christoph Höcker: Greek mainland. Antiquity and Byzantium, Islam and Classicism between the Corinthian Gulf and northern Greek mountains (= DuMont Art Travel Guide ). 5th edition. Dumont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-2936-2 .
• Crete (= DuMont art travel guide ). Cologne 1998, 4th edition 2006.
• Peloponnese. Mycenaean palaces, ancient sanctuaries and Venetian castles in the south of Greece (= DuMont art travel guide ). Cologne 2001.
• with Christoph Höcker: The Acropolis of Athens. A history of art and culture. Scientific Book Society and Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2001.
• with Martina Seifert: Sphinx - Amazon - Maenad. Menacing images of women in ancient myth. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lambert Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Lambert Schneider at the University of Hamburg