Martin Bentz

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Martin Bentz (* 1961 in Cologne ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Bentz studied Classical Archeology, Prehistory and Ancient History at the Universities of Cologne , Florence and Göttingen , where he worked with the doctoral thesis in 1989 of Hellenism Etruscan votive bronzes was awarded his doctorate. He then received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute for 1989/1990 . From 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Regensburg ; after his habilitation, which he obtained in 1997 with the work Panathenean Preisamphoren : An Athenian vase genus and its function from 6th to 4th Century BC Chr. Reached, he was promoted to senior assistant. From 1999 to 2004 he was the managing editor of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and held deputy professorships at the universities of Munich and Vienna . In the 2004/2005 winter semester, he accepted a call to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he has held the second chair for Classical Archeology since then. Bentz has been Vice Dean for Structural and Financial Affairs at the university since September 2008.

Martin Bentz is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici . From 2008 to 2012 he was chairman of the German Association of Archaeologists . In 2017 he was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

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