Peter Zazoff
Peter Zazoff (born April 4, 1922 in Sofia , † August 1, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German classical archaeologist of Bulgarian origin.
Life
After graduating from high school in 1941, Zazoff began studying classical archeology, Greek studies and ancient history in 1944 . He studied at the Universities of Freiburg and Erlangen , where he in 1948 when Georg Lippold Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After studying to be a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute in Hamburg (1952/53), he worked as a teacher at the Senator Krause School there. In 1963 he was employed as an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg . After his habilitation in 1966, he worked as a university lecturer in Hamburg. In 1971 he was appointed university professor for archeology and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, and in 1987 he retired.
research
Zazoff's life's work is the systematic research of ancient gems . From 1970 to 1975 he published the catalog series Antike Gemmen in German collections on behalf of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1983 he also published the handbook Die antiken Gemmen (in the series Handbook of Archeology ) and (together with his wife, doctor Hilde Zazoff) the monograph Gemmensammler und Gemmenforscher (Munich 1983).
Zazoff also acted as a mediator between East and West. Since 1984 he has headed the scientific exchange program between the universities of Sofia and Hamburg. Together with Lambert Schneider , he undertook research trips to the former Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Romania in 1986 and 1988 as part of a DFG project on Thracian and Scythian visual language. In 1999 he made further trips to Greece and Bulgaria with Lambert Schneider and Alexander Busenbender.
Zazoff remained active in research long after his retirement in 1987. From 1989 to 2001 he cataloged and edited the gems of the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities on behalf of the British Museum in London, the world's largest collection of magical gems, which was then published in 2001 by his student Simone Michel . From 2001 to 2003 he and Simone Michel supervised the exhibition “Colorful Stones - Dark Pictures. Magical Gemmen ”, which could be seen in ten cities in Germany.
Since 2008 Zazoff has been working on the gems in the Tesoro del Delfín in the Museo del Prado in Madrid , on which he founded a research project funded by the German Archaeological Institute and the Museo del Prado in 2009.
Since 1965 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Zazoff in the catalog of the German National Library
Chair of Classical Archeology: Ernst Homann-Wedeking (1954–1959) | Ulf Jantzen (1960–1967) | Walter Hatto Gross (1968–1979) | Hans Georg Niemeyer (1980-2000) | Inge Nielsen (2000–2016) | Christof Berns (since 2018)
Further professorships for archeology and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean area: Peter Zazoff (1971–1987) | Hans Peter Laubscher (1977–1989) | Burkhard Fehr (1987-2007) | Martina Seifert (since 2010)
Professor according to § 17, 4: Lambert Schneider (1987–2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zazoff, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zazoff, Peter Blagoi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist of Bulgarian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sofia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 2011 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |