Reinhard Förtsch
Reinhard Förtsch (born October 15, 1958 ) is a German classical archaeologist .
Reinhard Förtsch received his doctorate in 1989 at the University of Göttingen under Klaus Fittschen with the dissertation Archaeological Commentary on the villa letters of the younger Pliny . He then became a university assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne . From 1989 to 1990 Förtsch was on the move in the Mediterranean area with the help of a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute and then again as a university assistant in Cologne. It was there that he completed his habilitation in 1994 with the thesis Art Use and Art Legitimation in Archaic and Early Classical Sparta , and in 2001 he was awarded the Offermann-Hergarten Prize of the University of Cologne. Since 1996 Förtsch has been head of the research archive for ancient plastic at the University of Cologne , renamed in 2010 to the Cologne Office for Digital Archeology / CoDArchLab . He also teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne. Since August 2012 he has been Scientific Director for Information Technologies at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.
The central project is the construction and further development of idai-welt, the web-based digital research environment of the DAI, including the archaeological object database Arachne . It is related to the conception of an integrated archaeological information environment based on semantic web technologies within the German Archaeological Institute.
Förtsch is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and was an advisor to the Secretary General of the DAI from July 2011 to July 2012 in setting up a pillar of scientific information processing. From 1996 to 2012 he was editor of the scientific monograph series Monumenta Artis Romanae and received a Google Digital Humanities Award for the project “Validating Metadata-Patterns for Google Books' Ancient Places and Sites”. In the academic year 2011/2012 he was professore visitatore at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata , Dipartimento di Antichità e Tradizione Classica.
Fonts
- Archaeological commentary on the villa letters of the younger Pliny. von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1317-9 (Contributions to the development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture, Volume 13).
- Use and legitimation of art in archaic and early classical Sparta. von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2736-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhard Förtsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reinhard Förtsch on the website of the University of Cologne
- Lecture "Marble, Stone and Iron Breaks" at Access Shape 2016
- Lecture “The Unknown Unknown” in archaeological data. Reflections on archeology and IT
- Lecture "Portrait, the Individual and Singularity in a World of Artificial Intelligence" Fellowship Lecture at Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georgios Chatzoudis: Archeology digital. Interview with Prof. Dr. Reinhard Förtsch. In: LISA - The Science Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation from October 14, 2013
- ↑ http://www.dainst.org/de/forschung/forschung-digital/idai.welt
- ↑ http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-researchers-dive-into-digital.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Förtsch, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1958 |