Ralf von den Hoff

Ralf von den Hoff (born November 14, 1963 in Duisburg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Ralf von den Hoff passed his Abitur in 1982 at the Landfermann Gymnasium in Duisburg. In 1983 he began studying Classical Archeology, Ancient History, and Prehistory and Early History at the University of Bonn and temporarily at the University of Munich . In 1992 he received his doctorate in Bonn with the dissertation of philosophers portraits of early and high Hellenism under Nikolaus Himmelmann . In 1992/93 von den Hoff was traveling the Mediterranean area as holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . After returning to Germany in 1994, he became a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Munich . In 1999/2000 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with the help of the Feodor Lynen Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . The habilitation took place in 2001 in Munich with the work The Heros and the Polis. Changes in the image of Theseus in Athens in the 6th and 5th centuries. v. Chr. , Followed by von den Hoff assistant professor and lecturer in Munich. Since 2004 he has been the editor of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , which is managed by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 2006 von den Hoff was appointed to the W3 professorship for Classical Archeology at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Freiburg and has been the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 948 Heroes, Heroizations, and Heroisms of the German Research Foundation since 2012 .

Von den Hoff primarily deals with Greek sculpture and ancient portraits, the iconology and visual culture of antiquity, as well as urban space and urban space design in the cities of Hellenism . He researches the gymnasium of Pergamon , the urban planning and cultural history of Aizanoi , where he carried out excavations from 2007 to 2010, and is working on a catalog of ancient sculptures in the Fasanerie hunting lodge near Fulda . He is co-editor of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies .

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Portraits of philosophers from early and high Hellenism . Biering and Brinkmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-930609-01-0 .
Introduction to Classical Archeology . CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-72728-3 .
with Stefan Schmidt (editor): Constructions of Reality. Pictures in Greece of the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07859-2 .
with Martin Flashar and Bettina Kreuzer : Theseus. The hero of the Athenians . Biering and Brinkmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-930609-39-8 (writings from the Freiburg Archaeological Collection, Vol. 7).
with Andreas Dobler (editor): Antike! Highlights of the collection of Greek and Roman art from the House of Hesse . Imhof / Hessische Hausstiftung, Petersberg / Eichenzell 2005, ISBN 3-86568-057-7 , ISBN 978-3-9807134-2-9 and ISBN 3-9807134-2-3 .
Theseus, the Klitias crater and Athens in the 6th century BC Chr. University of Konstanz, Culture Collaborative Research, Konstanz 2005 (discussions / Cultural Collaborative Research Center SFB 485 Norm and Symbol. The cultural dimension Social and Political Integration, University of Konstanz, no. 59).
with Wilfried Stroh , Martin Zimmermann : Divus Augustus. The first Roman emperor and his world. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66052-8 .

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SURNAME	Hoff, Ralf from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Duisburg