Michaela Fuchs (archaeologist)

Michaela Fuchs (* 1949 in Adelsberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Michaela Fuchs graduated from high school in Stuttgart in 1971 and then began studying classical archeology, art history and prehistory at the universities of Tübingen , Würzburg , Rome and Munich . From 1973 until the end of her studies in 1980 she was funded by the German National Academic Foundation. In April 1980 she received her doctorate in Tübingen with Ulrich Hausmann with a thesis on the subject of furnishing Roman theaters in Italy and the western provinces of the Roman Empire . After completing her doctorate, Fuchs was able to travel to the Mediterranean region as the holder of the German Archaeological Institute's travel grant . She was able to process the finds from the theater in Fiesole and participate in the redesign of the Fiesole Museum . In 1981/82 she worked on Helmut Berve's estate in library form with a work contract from the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy . From 1982 to 1987 Fuchs was a research assistant at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek in Munich . This was followed by a research stay at the Howard Crosby Butler Archives at Princeton University until 1990 , where she also worked as a lecturer and as a visiting scholar in 1989/90. After returning to Germany, she held teaching positions at the University of Eichstätt from 1990 to 1992 and received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1993 Fuchs again became a research assistant at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek, but in 1995 he went to the Free University of Berlin . There she completed her habilitation in November 1996 with the thesis In hoc etiam genere Graeciae nihil cedamus. Studies on the Romanization of late Hellenistic art in the 1st century BC BC using the example of ideal sculpture . In 1998 she moved on to the University of Tübingen. In 1999 the attempt to succeed Thuri Lorenz at the University of Graz failed , and a year later the attempt to succeed Jürgen Borchhardt in Vienna failed . In 1999/2000 she stayed again for a research stay in Princeton, in 2000/01 she taught at the University of Innsbruck . In 2001, Fuchs completed her habilitation at the University of Munich, where she has been active since then, and in April 2007 she was awarded the title of adjunct professor. A visiting professorship took her to Graz in 2002/03 and to the University of Vienna in the 2008 summer semester.

Fuchs primarily researches ancient, especially Roman, sculpture. She was married to the classical archaeologist Hugo Meyer (1949–2015).

Fonts

• Editor: Guide through the ruins of Olympia , Karawane-Verlag, Ludwigsburg, 2nd edition 1977 (Caravan travel guide)
• Il teatro romano di Fiesole , L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 1986, ISBN 88-7062-591-5 (Studia archaeologica, volume 40).
• Investigations into the equipment of Roman theaters in Italy and the western provinces of the Imperium Romanum , von Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-8053-0852-3 .
• Glyptothek Munich. Catalog of the sculptures Vol. VI: Römische Idealplastik , CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35479-3 .
• In hoc etiam genere Graeciae nihil cedamus. Studies on the Romanization of late Hellenistic art in the 1st century BC BC using the example of ideal sculpture , von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2519-3 .
• Glyptothek Munich. Catalog of the sculptures Vol. VII: Roman relief works , von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-406-48650-9 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and list of publications on the LMU website