Rita Amedick

Rita Amedick (born October 17, 1958 in Krefeld ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Rita Amedick was born in 1986 at the University of Marburg with a dissertation on the topic of early imperial sculptural styles. Doctorate in design and dissemination of imperial representational art. From 1985 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the research company Die ancient Sarcophagus Reliefs , initially at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome , and from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Marburg in the same project. In 1992 she was initially a research assistant at the research company Villa Albani des Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main . In the same year she was awarded a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1995 Amedick again worked on the Marburg project "The ancient sarcophagus reliefs", where she stayed until 2000. 1997 the activity was interrupted by the representation of a lecturer at the University of Munich .

In the first half of the 2000s, Amedick began to increasingly use new media in teaching and knowledge transfer. In 2003/04 she wrote the e-learning program “The Portrait in Antiquity”, which is now part of the “Virtual Antikenmuseum Göttingen”. In 2004/05, together with Birgitta Coers, she gave the internet-based seminar “Pictorial Language of Roman Art” as part of the “School of Seeing”. From 2006 to 2008 Amedick was the curator of the exhibition “Jewels for a Saint of the Poor”, which was shown in Marburg in 2007 and in Sibiu in 2008 . Gem from the shrine of St. Elisabeth in Marburg ”. After initially teaching as a private lecturer in the seminar for classical archeology in Marburg , she has been an adjunct professor there since 2009 . In addition, she was in the department of Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History in Marburg and since 1997 lecturer at the University of Göttingen . Her main job is in a multimedia agency.

Amedick is currently focusing on the Roman sculptures by Cherchell in Algeria and the "Eikónes" of Flavius ​​Philostratos .

Fonts

• Early imperial sculpting styles. Design and distribution of imperial representational art, Schäuble, Rheinfelden 1987 ( Classical Studies , Vol. 1) ISBN 3-87718-671-8
• The ancient sarcophagus reliefs. First volume: The sarcophagi with the images from human life. Fourth part: Vita Privata , Mann, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7861-1642-3
• Wonders of ancient engineering. Automata - organs - clocks - water games , Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1767-X
• Jewels for a saint of the poor. Gem from the shrine of St. Elisabeth in Marburg . (Marburger Winckelmann program special volume 2007), Verlag Wort im Bild, Altenstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-88654-150-8

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Marburg

supporting documents

1. ↑ Goettingen Virtual Museum of Antiquities
2. ↑ School of seeing