Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger

Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger (* 1959 in Istanbul as Neslihan Asutay ) is a Turkish Byzantine art historian .

Life

After graduating from the Üsküdar high school in Istanbul in 1979, she studied art history , minor subjects Turkish-Islamic art, Byzantine art history and English philology at the University of Istanbul . With the work Yalova´da Kara Kilise (The black church in Yalova. A monograph on buildings) by Semavi Eyice , she received her master's degree from Istanbul University in 1985 . After completing his doctorate in 1993 at the University of Bonn with the dissertation Templonanlagen in the cave churches of Cappadocia under the supervision of Horst Hallensleben and the Habilitation 2005 at the Free University of Berlin , Department of Byzantine Studies , with the habilitation thesis Die Landmauer von Konstantinopel. Studies of topography, architecture, masonry and building materials by Diether Roderich Reinsch , she was awarded the Venia Legendi for Byzantine art and archeology. In Turkey 2007 she was admitted to the title of Associated Professor (extended Venia Legendi: Byzantine Art and Archeology and Turkish-Islamic Art). In 2011 she received her habilitation at the Ruhr University Bochum , where she was appointed adjunct professor in 2016. Since the summer semester 1993 she has been teaching at the universities of Mainz , Bonn , Berlin , Bochum , Paderborn , Konya and Zurich . For research stays she stayed in Turkey, Greece, Italy and the USA.

Her main research interests are Byzantine architecture, Byzantine military architecture, Byzantine topography of Constantinople, cultural transfer in the medieval Mediterranean area, and Ottoman and Seljuk architecture.

Fonts (selection)

• Templon systems in the cave churches of Cappadocia (= European university publications . Series 28 Art History. Volume 248). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-631-49656-7 (also dissertation, Bonn 1993).
• Byzantine apse side rooms. Investigation of the function of the apse side rooms in the cave churches of Cappadocia and in the Central Byzantine churches of Constantinople . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-89739-022-1 .
• with Arne Effenberger : The porphyry sarcophagi of the Eastern Roman emperors. Attempt to record, determine the time and assign it (= late antiquity, early Christianity, Byzantium. Series B, Studies and Perspectives. Volume 15). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-89500-353-0 .
• The land wall of Constantinople. Historical-topographical and architectural studies (= Millennium Studies. Volume 18). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019645-0 (also habilitation thesis, FU Berlin 2005).
• as editor with Ulrich Rehm : Sultan Mehmet II. Conqueror of Constantinople - patron of the arts . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20255-2 .
• as editor with Falko Daim : Philopátion. Contributions to Byzantium and its Neighbors. Festschrift for Arne Effenberger on his 70th birthday. Walk in the imperial garden (= Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Monographs. Volume 106). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2723-8 .
• as editor with Falko Daim: The double-headed eagle. Byzantium and the Seljuks in Anatolia from the late 11th to the 13th century (= Byzantium between Orient and Occident. Volume 1). Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2014, ISBN 3-7954-2980-3 .
• Reclam's city guide. Architecture and art. Istanbul (= Reclams Universal Library. Volume 19140). Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 3-15-019140-8 .
• with Arne Effenberger: Byzantium. World empire of art . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-58702-3 .

Web links

• University of Mainz
• Ruhr-University Bochum
• Publications by Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii