Michael Pfrommer

Michael Pfrommer (born January 29, 1954 in Karlsruhe ) is a German classical archaeologist and novelist.

Michael Pfrommer grew up in Nuremberg. Between 1973 and 1979 he studied classical archeology, prehistory and early history as well as ancient history at the University of Erlangen and the University of Munich . He received his doctorate in 1979 under Klaus Parlasca in Erlangen with the thesis Studies on Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Toreutics . In 1980/81 he was a holder of the German Archaeological Institute's travel grant in the Mediterranean region . From 1983 to 1987 Pfrommer worked as a consultant for Classical Archeology at the German Archaeological Institute , Istanbul Department, where he was also involved in excavations in Miletus . In 1983 and 1985 he was able to research for several months as a visiting researcher at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu . From 1988 to 1989 he had a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation ; The habilitation took place in 1990 at the University of Trier with a thesis on the Alexander mosaic . As a Heisenberg scholar , Pfrommer conducted research on the steppe peoples and the Silk Road between 1990 and 1995 . On July 11, 1995, he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Trier. Since 1995 he has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Pfrommer devotes his research to Hellenistic art in particular . He also worked as a specialist in numerous documentaries for ZDF and Arte . He also wrote several historical novels.

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Scientific works

• Studies on Alexandrian and Great Greek Toreutics from the early Hellenistic period , Mann, Berlin 1987 ISBN 3-7861-1433-1 (Archaeological Research, Volume 16) (= dissertation)
• Studies on the chronology of early and high Hellenistic gold jewelry , Wasmuth, Tübingen 1990 ISBN 3-8030-1758-0 (Istanbul Research, Volume 37)
• Divine princes in Boscoreale. The ballroom in the villa of P. Fannius Synistor , von Zabern, Mainz 1993 ISBN 3-8053-1636-4 ( Trier Winckelmannsprogramme , issue 12)
• Studies on the chronology and composition of the Alexander mosaic on an antiquarian basis , von Zabern, Mainz 1998 ISBN 3-8053-2028-0 (Aegyptiaca Treverensia, Volume 8) (= habilitation thesis)
• Alexandria. In the shadow of the pyramids , von Zabern, Mainz 1999 ISBN 3-8053-2504-5 ( special issues on the ancient world / Zabern's illustrated books on archeology )
• Alexander the Great. On the trail of a myth , von Zabern, Mainz 2001 ISBN 3-8053-2729-3 (special issues on the ancient world / Zabern's illustrated books on archeology)
• Queens of the Nile , von Zabern, Mainz 2002 ISBN 3-8053-2916-4 (Arte-Edition)

Novels

• Cleopatra and the golden snake , Metz, Gaggenau 2005 ISBN 3-927655-66-X / ISBN 3-927655-67-8
• Hindu Kush , von Zabern, Mainz 2007 ISBN 978-3-8053-3790-8
• The second book , von Zabern, Mainz 2007 ISBN 978-3-8053-3714-4
• The flight of gripping , von Zabern, Mainz 2007 ISBN 978-3-8053-3728-1
• Conspiracy on Vesuvius. A detective novel from old Pompeii , Arena, Würzburg 2008 ISBN 978-3-401-06130-6
• Cleopatra and the Cloud Tower. Youth novel. With a small lexicon of ancient and Egyptian terms , von Zabern, Mainz 2009 ISBN 978-3-8053-3923-0

literature

• OA: Michael Pfrommer , In: Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie , 13 (1996/97), p. 84

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Pfrommer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage
• Portrait at histo-couch.de