Stephan Westphalen

Stephan Westphalen (* 1961 in Flensburg ) is a German Christian archaeologist .

Life

Stephan Westphalen studied Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History, Art History , Middle and New History and Church History from 1982 to 1991 at the Universities of Göttingen , Kiel and Freiburg . In 1991 he completed his studies in Freiburg with Otto Feld with a master’s degree, the subject of the thesis was architectural sculpture and liturgical furnishings from early Christian churches on Samos . In 1994/95 he was a Junior Fellow in Dumbarton Oaks . In 1995 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on The Odalar Camii in Istanbul. Architecture and painting of a middle Byzantine church , which was again looked after by Otto Feld. In 1996 Westphalen became a scientific consultant at the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Damascus . In 2001 he moved to the University of Göttingen as a habilitation scholarship holder from the German Research Foundation , where he also held teaching positions at the Institute for Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History. In 2004/05 Westphalen was a foreign scholarship holder at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute . From 2005 to 2008, he also held courses on the master's degree in the preservation of historical monuments at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences and Arts . The habilitation took place in 2007 on the subject of liturgy or design? Form and function of ancillary apse rooms in Cilician church buildings of the 5th and 6th centuries . In 2008 he researched the basilica at Kalekapı in Herakleia Perinthos ( Marmara Ereğlisi ) as a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation and evaluated the excavations in 1992/93 and 2006/07. In 2008 he became W2 Professor for Archeology at the Faculty of Preservation of Cultural Property at the University of Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim, and a year later W3 Professor for Byzantine Archeology and Art History at the University of Heidelberg . Westphalen has been a full member and specialist representative for Christian archeology in the central management of the German Archaeological Institute since 2010.

Westphalen took part in research by the German Archaeological Institute on the basilica in Heraion of Samos and other early Christian monuments on the island since 1988 . Further excavations followed from 1991 to 1993 in Freiburg , on the Upper Rhine and in the Black Forest . From 1992 to 1995 he researched the Middle Byzantine architecture and the wall paintings of the Odalar Camii in Istanbul. In 1995/96 he examined the Byzantine basilica of Priene . From 1997 to 1999 excavations followed in Resafa-Sergiopolis in Syria , from 1999 to 2003 the uncovering and restoration of medieval wall paintings in the monastery church of Mar Yakub in Qara , Syria. In 2000 he recorded the architectural parts of a ship found in the Museum Tartus in Syria, in 2003/04 he examined the Byzantine monuments of Olba and Diokaisareia near Uzuncaburç in Turkey as part of a DFG project led by Detlev Wannagat , Kai Trampedach and Ulrich Gotter . In 2004 he organized an international conference of the German Archaeological Institute, the University of Leiden and the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in Damascus on the subject of Qara, Deir Mar Yakub - The "Museum Fragments". Christian Art and Identity in Medieval Syria . The following year he examined paintings in the Arap Camii in Istanbul, in 2006 he documented the architecture and paintings in Deir Mar Musa, Syria, and took photographs of the wall paintings in the Belt Temple in Palmyra . From 2006 to 2010 he took part in excavations of the Tekirdağ and Mustafa Sayars Museum in the early Byzantine basilica in Marmara Ereğlisi ( Perinthos ).

Fonts (selection)

• The Odalar Camii in Istanbul. Architecture and painting of a Middle Byzantine church in Istanbul (= Istanbuler Mitteilungen . Supplement 42). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8030-1741-6 .
• with Andrea Schmidt (ed.): Christian wall paintings in Syria. Qara and the Mar Yakub monastery (= languages ​​and cultures of the Christian Orient. Volume 14). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-395-6 .
• with Nuşin Asgari, Akıf Işın and Önder Öztürk: The basilica at Kalekapı in Herakleia Perinthos. Report on the 1992–2010 excavations in Marmara Ereğlisi. With contributions by Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, E. Arzu Demirel and Jürgen J. Rasch (= Istanbul Research. Volume 55). Wasmuth, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8030-1776-5 .

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Heidelberg
• Westphalen, Stephan .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .