Nikolaus Dietrich

Nikolaus Dietrich on a tour of the Museum of Antiquities at Heidelberg University , 2016

Nikolaus Dietrich (born January 5, 1980 in Munich ) is a German classical archaeologist and professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology at Heidelberg University .

Nikolaus Dietrich attended the French School in Munich and graduated from the baccalauréat in 1998 . From 1999 to 2004 - since 2002 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation - he studied Classical Archeology, Greek Studies and Philosophy at the University of Munich (LMU) and for a year at the Sorbonne (EHESS) in Paris . From 2004 to 2008 a doctoral degree followed with dual supervision at both universities by Luca Giuliani at LMU and François Lissarrague at EHESS. Since 2005 he has received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, and from 2005 to 2007 also from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . The theme of the basic dissertation was the landscape elements in Attic vase painting of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Chr. The work was inspired by the thesis that of Alain snap was taken care of. In 2008 Dietrich became a research associate in the Classical Archeology Department at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In October 2014 he was a visiting professor at EHESS. In April 2015, Dietrich was appointed to the chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Heidelberg, which had been vacant since the retirement of Tonio Hölscher . The professorship was initially advertised as a junior professorship with a tenure track option for a W3 professorship after the habilitation . For the Collaborative Research Center 933 “Material Text Cultures” of the German Research Foundation , he heads the sub-project Writing and Image in Greek Sculpture: Exemplary investigation using the example of Athens and Olympia from the Archaic to the Imperial Era .

Dietrich conducts research on ancient Greek and Roman visual cultures, on the methodology of classical archaeological culture and image analysis and the formation of theory in classical archeology within and beyond the German-speaking research landscape. The focus of the research is on Greek vase painting as well as archaic and classical Greek sculpture.

Fonts

• Figure without space? Trees and rocks in Attic vase painting from the 6th and 5th centuries BC Chr. (= ICON - Image and Context. Volume 7). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010.
• The attribute as a problem. A visual study of Greek art. (= ICON - Image and Context ). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2017.
• as editor with M. Squire: Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art. Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity. (= ICON - Image and Context ). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2017.

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Dietrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Dietrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the website of Heidelberg University

Remarks

1. ↑ Writing and image in Greek sculpture: Exemplary investigation using the example of Athens and Olympias from the Archaic to the Imperial Era