Pascal Weitmann

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Pascal Weitmann (* 1960 in Nuremberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Pascal Weitmann studied philosophy , classical archeology, art history and Protestant theology in Göttingen and Tübingen . He received his master's in philosophy and in 1994 at the University of Tuebingen in Classical Archeology doctorate . In 1994 he was assistant for the theory of the arts and aesthetics at the University of the Arts in Berlin. During the first funding phase from 2005 to 2008, he worked at the Berlin Collaborative Research Center 644 “Transformations of Antiquity”, where he carried out the sub-project “The example of the Berlin Museum Island 1830–1930” for the sub-project A 9 “Center and Province: Cultural Constructions as Transformations of the Concept of Antiquity in 19th century ”. He completed his habilitation in 2010 at the University of Kiel and has been a private lecturer in classical archeology there since then . Since January 1, 2018 he has been a research assistant at the Gotha Research Center of the University of Erfurt for the NUMiD project, sub-project “The history of university coin collections in Germany”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Succession and present. On theoretical statements about the fine arts and music from Basileios to Hrabanus Maurus (= Late Antiquity - Early Christianity - Byzantium. Art in the first millennium. Series B. Studies and Perspectives . Volume 2). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-88226-954-5 (also dissertation, Tübingen 1994).
  • Picasso's ceramics and antiquity (= catalogs and writings of the Archaeological Museum of Martin Luther University . Volume 3). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-941171-44-2 .
  • Classical antiquity in the Berlin museums 1797–1930. Exempla for art, commerce, science and world history . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern 2011, ISBN 3-631-60570-6 .
  • Technology as art. Automata in Greco-Roman antiquity and their reception in the early modern period as an ideal of art or a model for philosophy and economics . Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8030-1061-2 (also habilitation thesis Kiel 2010, table of contents ).
  • Against digital idolatry. Critical remarks on the fashionable relationship between art history and “new media” (= Punctum. Treatises from Art & Culture . Volume 24). Scaneg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89235-124-5 .

literature

  • La part de l'œil 15/16 Dossier: Problème de la Kunstwissenschaft 1999/2000, p. 333 (short curriculum vitae).
  • Das Münster 53, 2000, p. 139 (short curriculum vitae).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ page of the SFB .
  2. ↑ Christiana Albertina 70, 2010, p. 70.
  3. ↑ Newsletter Forschungszentrum Gotha issue 1/2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weitmann, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg