Rotraut Wisskirchen

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Rotraut Wisskirchen (born June 23, 1936 in Hagen ; † August 1, 2018 in Bonn ) was a German Christian archaeologist and university lecturer .

Rotraut Wisskirchen studied in Munich and Bonn Jura ; then she worked as a lawyer at the Federal Ministry for Housing and Urban Development from 1965 to 1967 . She was married to the lawyer Alfred Wisskirchen; Her two daughters (* 1968 and 1966) are also lawyers.

In 1981 she began studying Christian archeology , ancient church history and patrology at the University of Bonn , which she completed in 1989 with a doctorate under Josef Engemann . The subject of the dissertation was The Mosaic Program by S. Prassede in Rome. Iconography and Iconology . From 1989 to 2017 she continuously held teaching positions at the universities of Bonn, Mainz , Cologne , Bochum and Wuppertal . Through regular annual excursions to the archaeologically relevant sites, she ensured that the students got to know the scenes of late antique history in southern Europe and the Middle East first-hand. In 2000, the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bochum appointed her - the second woman and first Protestant - to be an honorary professor. In August 2010 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Publications (selection)

  • The mosaic program of S. Prassede in Rome. Ikonographie und Ikonologie , Aschendorff, Münster 1990 ( Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary Volume, Vol. 17) ISBN 3-402-08530-5
  • Mirror of a science. On the history of Christian archeology from the 16th to the 19th century presented in authors and books. An exhibition of the Christian Archaeological Seminar in the University Library of Bonn, September – December 1991 (Ed. With Michael Schmauder), Christian Archaeological Seminar, Bonn 1991
  • The mosaics of the Church of Santa Prassede in Rome , von Zabern, Mainz 1992 ( Ancient World . Special Issue / Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ) ISBN 3-8053-1318-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rotraut Wisskirchen. Ruhr University Bochum, September 24, 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Obituary. Ruhr University Bochum, August 10, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Obituary notice of Prof. Dr. Rotraut Wisskirchen. ASPETOS, accessed November 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wisskirchen, Rotraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Christian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2018
Place of death Bonn