Matthias Steinhart
Matthias Steinhart (born April 17, 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German classical archaeologist .
Live and act
Matthias Steinhart studied after visiting the humanistic Scheffel-Gymnasium in Lahr from 1985 to 1994 - since 1988 as a fellow of the studienstiftung - at the University of Bonn and the University of Würzburg Classical Archeology, Greek philology and ancient history. In 1990 he received his master's degree, and his doctorate with the dissertation “The motif of the eye in Greek visual art” took place in 1994 with Erika Simon .
From mid-1998 to mid-2000, Steinhart was a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Freiburg for the research project "Antiquities of Ithaca - an imaginary museum" by Hans-Joachim Gehrke and Eckhard Wirbelauer . This was followed by two more years as a research assistant at the same institute, now as a member of the sub-project B 1 “Roman imperial and regional identities and their interplay in the eastern Roman Empire” of the Collaborative Research Center 541 “Identities and Alterities. The Function of Alterity for the Constitution and Construction of Identity ”by the DFG. Steinhart dealt with the topic " Pausanias and the cultural identity of Greece in Roman times". During this time he completed his habilitation in 2001 at the University of Freiburg . From 2002 to 2005 Steinhart was a research assistant, 2005/06 academic councilor and since 2006 private lecturer at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Freiburg.
Since January 1st, 2008 Steinhart has been a curator at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek Munich . On August 26, 2008 he was re-qualified at the University of Munich . Since December 1st, 2011 he has held the chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Würzburg. He was also head of the antiques department of the university's Martin von Wagner Museum until September 2014 . In 2014 he was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Since 2015 he has been the head of archeology in the Classical Studies section of the Görres Society .
Fonts (selection)
- The motif of the eye in Greek visual art. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-8053-1792-1 (= dissertation)
- Pottery and master drawing. Attic wine and oil vessels from the Zimmermann collection. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1896-0
- with Friedhelm Hoffmann : Animals from the Nile. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001 (Egyptian terracottas in Würzburg (donation from Gütte), issue 1), ISBN 3-89500-225-9
- with Eckhard Wirbelauer : From the homeland of Odysseus. Travelers, excavations and finds on Ithaca and Kephallenia up to the end of the 19th century. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002 ( Cultural History of the Ancient World , Vol. 87), ISBN 3-8053-2835-4
- The art of imitation. Representations of mimetic performances in Greek visual art of archaic and classical times. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3338-2 (= habilitation thesis)
- Images of virtus. Silverware from the imperial era and the great role models of Rome: The Lanx von Stráže. Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09631-7 (Collegium Beatus Rhenanus, Volume 2)
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthias Steinhart in the catalog of the German National Library
- phil.uni-wuerzburg.de
Individual evidence
Ludwig von Urlichs (1855–1889) | Karl Sittl (1889–1899) | Paul Wolters (1900-1908) | Heinrich Bulle (1898–1902, 1908–1935) | Reinhard Herbig (1936–1941) | Hans Möbius (1943–1963) | Erika Simon (1964–1994) | Ulrich Sinn (1994–2011) Matthias Steinhart (since 2011)
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| SURNAME | Steinhart, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |