Rainer Stichel

Rainer Stichel (born August 19, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German Byzantinist .

Life

In 1971 he worked for the Christian archaeologist Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann at the German Archaeological Institute and then a speaker at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . After his habilitation in 1981 at the University of Cologne for the subject of Byzantine Studies, he became Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Münster in 1985 . In 1987/1988 he conducted research at the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Study Center in Washington, DC as Senior Research Associate . In 1994 and 1997 he taught as Directeur d'études invité at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris . Since 1995 he has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

His research interests are the interrelationships between Byzantine literature and art, the afterlife of Jewish literature of the Hellenistic period in the Byzantine world, and the importance of Byzantine culture for the Orthodox Slavs.

His brother is the classical archaeologist Rudolf HW Stichel (* 1945).

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the relationship between text and image in late and post-Byzantine depictions of transience. The initial miniatures of Psalter manuscripts of the 14th century, their origin, meaning and their survival in Greek and Russian art and literature (= Byzantina Vindobonensia. Volume 5). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz / Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-205-03280-2 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 1969).
• The names of Noes, his brother and his wife. A contribution to the afterlife of Jewish traditions in non-canonical and Gnostic literature and in monuments of art (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class 3. Number 112). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-525-82391-6 .
• Nathanael under the fig tree. The story of a biblical narrative in literature and art of the Byzantine world . Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-515-03693-8 (also habilitation thesis, Cologne 1981).
• The Nativity in Russian Icon Painting. Requirements in faith and art of the Christian East and West . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-04273-3 .
• Contributions to the early history of the psalter and the history of the impact of the psalms (= treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Volume 116). Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-506-76386-5 .

Web links

• Westphalian Wilhelms University (with list of publications)
• Graver, Rainer .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .