Michael Pfanner

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Michael Pfanner (* 1955 ) is a German classical archaeologist and restorer .

Live and act

Michael Pfanner completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor and restorer. Then studied classical archeology and in 1981 at the University of Munich with a thesis on the Arch of Titus doctorate . He also studied architecture up to a degree in engineering. In 1981/82 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , with the help of which he was able to travel to the Mediterranean .

He runs his own company in Munich that deals with sculpture , stone masonry and restoration work. As a restorer, for example, he was responsible for the emergency measures before the restoration and the restoration planning for the market gate of Miletus . He teaches as an honorary professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Leipzig . Pfanner is a member of the advisory board of the European Redevelopment Calendar yearbook . He also works on the Ex-Lateran catalog of the Vatican Museums . His guide to stone conservation, published with Rolf Snethlage . Planning of investigations and measures for the preservation of monuments made of natural stone is a standard work in his field and has so far seen four editions.

Fonts (selection)

  • Editor with Hans-Markus von Kaenel : Tschugg - Roman manor. Excavation 1977. Adjacent building (= series of publications by the Education Department of the Canton of Bern ). State publishing house for teaching materials, Bern 1980.
  • The Arch of Titus (= contributions to the development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture, Volume 2). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0563-X .
  • with Rolf Snethlage: Guidelines for stone conservation. Planning of investigations and measures for the preservation of monuments made of natural stone (4th edition). Fraunhofer-IRB-Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8167-8633-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Monument Protection Medal 2018 . Munich 2018 ( online [PDF; 10.6 MB ; accessed on October 19, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Pfanner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955