Martin Langner

Martin Langner

Martin Langner (* 1966 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

After studying Classical Archeology and Classical Philology at the University of Cologne , Langner received his doctorate from Henner von Hesberg with a thesis on "Ancient graffiti drawings on immovable supports". As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked on a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation as part of the project led by Paul Zanker in Rome to research urban culture during the imperial era . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen for one year and then from 2003 to 2012 at the Free University of Berlin . In 2012 he completed his habilitation there with the thesis “Masterpiece and mass-produced goods. Chronology, decor and function of late red-figure picture vases from Athens ”. He then headed the Digital Archeology Unit (CoDArchLab) at the University of Cologne. From 2013 to 2018 he was Professor of Classical Archeology and its Digital Methodology in Göttingen .

Langner's main research interests include contextual image analysis (especially Greek vase painting , Roman wall painting and relief), archaeological acculturation research, research into everyday culture and the use of scientific and information technology methods.

Publications

Monographs

• Antique graffiti drawings. Motives, design and meaning. (German Archaeological Institute / Rome Department.) Wiesbaden: Reichert 2001, ISBN 3-89500-188-0 (= dissertation, University of Cologne 1997).
• Masterpiece and mass-produced. Chronology, decor and function of late red-figure picture vases from Athens. Habilitation thesis, Free University of Berlin 2012 (unpublished).

Editorships

• with Ursula Kästner and Britta Rabe: Greeks, Scythians, Amazons. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, June 14 to October 21, 2007.) Berlin: Institute for Classical Archeology 2007.

Articles (selection)

• Scenes from handicraft and trade on Gallo-Roman tombs. In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 116, 2001, pp. 297–354 (online) .
• Barbarians of the Greek language? - The imagery of the Bosporan Empire and the self-image of its inhabitants. In: Frederike Fless, Mikhail Treister (ed.): Images and objects as carriers of cultural identity and intercultural communication in the Black Sea region . (= International Archeology ASTK ; Volume 6.) Rahden / Westphalia 2005. pp. 53–66.
• Mantle figures and the Athenization of Late Classical Imagery. In: Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, Stine Schierup (Ed.): Red-Figure Iconography in its Ancient Setting. (2nd Enbom Workshop, Copenhagen November 5-6, 2009.) Copenhagen 2012, pp. 11-20.
• Basics of the chronology of late red-figure vases from Athens. In: BABESCH - Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archeology 88, 2013, pp. 127–170.
• Amazons as immigrants. Origin, construction, and deconstruction of mythical relationships in Athens and Ephesus. In: Almut-Barbara Renger, Isabel Toral-Niehoff (eds.): Genealogy and Migration. Ancient migration myths, topoi. (= Berlin Studies of the Ancient World Volume 20.) Berlin 2014, pp. 103-134. (online) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Langner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Göttingen