Ruth Bielfeldt

Ruth Bielfeldt (* 1971 in Heidelberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Ruth Bielfeldt graduated from high school in Munich in 1990 and began studying classical archeology, Greek philology and philosophy at the universities of Munich , Florence and Heidelberg . Bielfeldt achieved her master's degree in Munich in 1996 with the work The Temple of Dionysus in the southern suburb of Pompeii , followed by her doctorate there in 2001 with Luca Giuliani with the dissertation The Oresty on Roman Sarcophagi . For her work she was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute for 2001/02 , with the help of which she was able to travel the Mediterranean region . In 2002/03 she was a research assistant at the University of Göttingen , from 2003 to 2005 at the University of Heidelberg, and from 2005 to 2008 she was an assistant in Heidelberg. She was the organizer of the colloquium Ding und Mensch in der Antiquity, which was financed by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and held in January 2008 . Present and mindfulness . From 2008 to 2016 Bielfeldt taught as an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University . Since autumn 2016 she has held the second chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich.

Bielfeldt took part in excavations in Androna, Syria, in 2005 and 2006 and in Pompeiopolis , Turkey, in 2008 and 2009 . She deals scientifically with iconology , the Roman art of burial, especially the Roman sarcophagi , urban planning in the Hellenistic period and the cities of Pompeii and Pergamon .

Bielfeldt's research focuses on the ancient cultures of things, phenomenology and the meaning of light, image and myth, Greek and Roman grave iconography, the Roman cena, Hellenistic cities of Asia Minor, sacred spaces between city and landscape. In her current research projects she deals with “Light from Pompeii: A comprehensive project on the lighting culture in the Vesuvian cities (monograph, database, e-learning & exhibition project)”, “The Red Giant. New Perspectives on the Colossus of Rhodes (book, in preparation) "," The Digital Colossus project "," More than a thing: Figural hybridity in ancient furnishings (research group and edited book project) "," The Octagon in Pompeiopolis (Phaphlagonia ), excavation project (2014-18) ".

Fonts (selection)

• Orestes on Roman sarcophagi. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-02767-3 .
• Editor: Thing and Man in Antiquity. Present and mindfulness . University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2014.

Web links

• Page at the University of Munich
• Portrait on the website of Heidelberg University
• Writings by Ruth Bielfeldt at academia.edu

Remarks

1. ^ Main research areas - Classical archeology - LMU Munich. Retrieved March 7, 2018 . 
2. ^ Main research areas - Classical archeology - LMU Munich. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .