Stefan Schmidt (archaeologist)

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Stefan Schmidt (* 1961 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Stefan Schmidt at the 2015 Academy Day in Berlin.

Stefan Schmidt received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on the subject of Hellenistic grave reliefs. Typological and chronological observations at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He then received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . After returning to Germany, Schmidt became a research assistant at the Academic Art Museum of the University of Bonn. In 1992 he moved to the University of Augsburg and became a research assistant there . From 1999 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow from the German Research Foundation and completed his habilitation in Augsburg in 2001. He then became a research assistant at the University of Augsburg and in 2003 moved to the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Leipzig as a senior assistant . In 2005 Schmidt was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Schmidt has been editor of the German section of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2006 . Since 2008 he has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Augsburg. His research interests are iconography , Greek sculpture and the culture of the Greco-Roman period in Egypt.

Fonts

  • Hellenistic grave reliefs. Typological and chronological observations . Böhlau, Cologne-Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-412-05090-3 (work on archeology).
  • Catalog of Ptolemaic and imperial objects from Egypt in the Academic Art Museum Bonn . Biering and Brinkmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-930609-12-6 .
  • Grave reliefs in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria . Achet, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-933684-13-4 (Treatises of the German Archaeological Institute Cairo. Egyptological series, vol. 17).
  • Rhetorical images on Attic vases. Visual communication in the 5th century BC Chr. Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-02776-2 .

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SURNAME Schmidt, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961