Rolf Michael Schneider

Rolf Michael Schneider (born September 10, 1950 in Hamburg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After completing high school at the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Hamburg (1962–1971), Schneider studied classical archeology, ancient history , late antique and Byzantine art history and Protestant theology at the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg , where he worked with Tonio Hölscher in 1982 with his dissertation Colorful barbarians: Oriental statues made of colored marble in Roman representational art; he passed the exam in his minor subjects with Géza Alföldy (Ancient History) and Christine Strube (Byzantine Art History). He then worked until 1983 as a scholarship holder of the Volkswagen Foundation on the project gems and glass pastes as evidence of political mentality: On the emergence and spread of Roman representational art . From 1984 to 1985 he completed a traineeship in the antiquities collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.

From 1987 to 1990 Schneider worked as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University, where he qualified as a professor in 1991 with the text Dionysian Intoxication and Social Reality: Large-scale Satyr Pictures from the Hellenistic Period . In the same year he was appointed private lecturer, in 1992 university lecturer. After a semester as visiting professor at the Department of Classics at Harvard University in 1997, he was promoted to adjunct professor in 1998, but in the same year followed an appointment at the University of Cambridge as a University Lecturer in Greek and Roman Art and Archeology . During his local working, he was a Fellow and 1999-2001 Dean (Dean) of Downing College. From 2000 to 2001 he was also the curator of the Museum of Classical Archeology.

From 2001 until his retirement in 2016, he taught as a full professor for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich . Since 2001, he has also been the Erasmus representative of the Department of Cultural Studies and the initiator of an annual student exchange between the two universities. Since 2005 he has published the Image and Context (ICON) series . From 2016 he teaches for four years as an honorary professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town .

Researches

Schneider's research focuses specifically on visual representations. These include u. a. Infrastructure and artifact of non-Greeks and non-Romans in Greek and Roman images, body image and anatomy, theories and methods of reconstructing visual pasts. Schneider also conducts research on emotions in images, in particular on laughter . Schneider wrote an extensive illustrated epilogue to a publication by Jacques Le Goff , which appeared under the title Laughing in the Middle Ages .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Michael Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rolf Michael Schneider at the University of Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacques Le Goff: Laughter in the Middle Ages. Translated from the French by Jochen Grube. 3rd edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 77-123.