Michael Altripp

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Michael Altripp (* 1963 in Wiesbaden ) is a German Byzantinist and art historian of late antique and Byzantine art .

Life

He attended the boarding school Birklehof . He had a travel grant from the European Organization for Travel Studies (ZIS; funded by the German National Academic Foundation and the German UNESCO Commission) on the subject of “Cathar castles in southern France”. He was a contract soldier (two years) in a NATO headquarters . He studied in Cologne , Munich and Bonn : Byzantine Studies (major), Eastern European History, Middle and Modern History (as well as Slavic Studies , Byzantine Art History, General Art History , Orthodox Theology ); Graduated with the master's thesis The Imagery of Liturgy Commentaries from Maximos Confessor to Symeon von Thessalonike and in the second degree in Bonn and Mainz Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History (major), General Art History, Medieval and Modern History. After completing his habilitation in 2003 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Greifswald , he has been teaching as an adjunct professor at the Theological Faculty in Greifswald since 2011 . He had a one-year research stay in Athens on a grant from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece.

His main research interests are theology (including cult) and art in late antique and Byzantine times (including the Old Testament , Theosis ); Iconography (including image programs); Architecture and Liturgy (Liturgy Commentaries) and Surveys.

Publications (selection)

  • The prosthesis and its pictorial equipment in Byzantium with special consideration of the monuments of Greece . Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-32382-4 .
  • with Claudia Nauerth : Architecture and Liturgy. Files from the colloquium from July 25 to 27, 2003 in Greifswald . Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-89500-474-X .
  • Byzantium in Europe. Europe's eastern heritage. Files from the colloquium “Byzantium in Europe” from December 11th to 15th, 2007 in Greifswald . Turnhout 2011, ISBN 2-503-54153-4 .
  • The basilica in Byzantium. Shape, equipment and function as well as the relationship to the cross-domed church . Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-11-026502-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Altripp, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist and art historian for late antique and Byzantine art
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden