Thomas Schäfer (archaeologist)

Thomas Schäfer (born December 11, 1953 in Göttingen ) is a German classical archaeologist .

After studying classical archeology , ancient history and Christian archeology at the universities of Göttingen , Bonn , Hamburg , Heidelberg and Rome was he in 1982 at the University of Heidelberg in Tonio Holscher with a working Roman magistrates over the presentation of the insignia on their tombs doctorate and received 1982–1983 travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1984 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens, then a research assistant at the Universities of Cologne and Frankfurt / Main. In 1995 he was at the University of Frankfurt with the work Andres Agathoi. The question of realism or fictionality in the representation of the human being in the Greek classical period qualified as a professor. In 1998 he became Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Greifswald , and since 2003 he has been Professor and Director of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen . In the summer of 2009, Schäfer was elected a full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

He published numerous publications in the field of Greek and Roman iconography . Since 2000, he and Massimo Osanna have headed a German-Italian excavation project on the Italian island of Pantelleria .

Fonts (selection)

• Andres Agathoi. Studies on the reality content of the armament of Attic warriors on monuments of the classical period. tuduv-Verl.-Ges., Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88073-554-9 . (Zugl .: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1995).
• Spolia et Signa. Building policy and imperial culture after the Parthian success of Augustus. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
• with Klaus Bringmann : Augustus and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003054-2 .
• Felicior Augusti, melior Traiano , In: Hans von Steuben (Hrsg.): Antique portraits. In memory of Helga von Heintze . Bibliopolis, Möhnesee 1999, pp. 295-302.
• U.v. Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, August Preuner and the archeology in Greifswald. In: William M. Calder et al. (Ed.): Wilamowitz in Greifswald. Olms, Hildesheim 2000, pp. 299-340.

literature

• Inaugural address by Thomas Schäfer at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on April 17, 2010. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for the year 2010. Heidelberg 2011, pp. 214–218 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Tübingen, with a list of publications

Remarks

1. ^ University of Tübingen: Pantelleria ; uni-protocol.de: The Roman city of Cossyra on Pantelleria was crowned by a temple .