Michael Maass

Michael Maaß (born March 17, 1942 in Heidelberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Michael Maaß received his doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1968 . Between 1970 and 1974 he worked on the excavation of the German Archaeological Institute in ancient Olympia . He then worked as a curator at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen Munich . In 1983 he became chief curator, in 2001 chief curator at the antiquities collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe . In 1985 he completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg and teaches as an honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 2007 he retired.

Michael Maaß is married to the archaeologist Gerta Maaß-Lindemann. Together with the designer Kurt Ranger, Ranger Design, he designed the presentation of the antiquities in Karlsruhe Palace (1995 and 1998). He was curator of the exhibitions “Delphi: Oracle at the Navel of the World” (1996), “In the Labyrinth of Minos - Crete the first European high culture” (2001) and “Hannibal ad portas - Power and Wealth of Carthage” (2004). In 1979 he became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Fonts

• The Prohedrie of the Dionysostheater in Athens (= Vestigia . 15). Beck, Munich 1972, (at the same time: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1968).
• The geometric tripods of Olympia (= Olympic research. 10). de Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-11-006703-X .
• Greek and Roman bronze works of the Antikensammlungen (= picture books of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen and the Glyptothek Munich. ). Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-04870-6 .
• Ancient Delphi. Oracles, treasures and monuments. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-10940-6 .
• as editor: Delphi - Oracle at the Navel of the World (= archaeological publications of the Badisches Landesmuseum. 1). Sigmaringen Thorbecke 1996, ISBN 3-7995-0304-8 (exhibition of the Badisches Landesmuseum).
• Painter and poet, myth, festival and everyday life. Greek vase pictures. From the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (= picture books of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. NF 4). Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3-937345-18-5 .
• The ancient Delphi (= Beck'sche series. 2431 C.-H.-Beck-Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-53631-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Maaß in the catalog of the German National Library