Ulf Jantzen
Ulf Jantzen (born April 5, 1909 in Florence , † March 4, 2000 in Hamburg ) was a German classical archaeologist .
The son of the art historian Hans Jantzen studied classical archeology and received his doctorate in Munich in 1936. From 1960 to 1969 he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Hamburg and from 1967 to 1974 First Director of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens . As such, he was the long-time leader of the excavations on Samos . In 1974 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Fonts (selection)
- Greek Greifenkessel , Berlin 1953.
- Bronze workshops in Greater Greece and Lower Italy
- Greek handle phials , Berlin 1958.
- Egyptian and oriental bronzes from the Heraion of Samos , Bonn 1972. ISBN 3-7749-1162-2
- One Hundred Years of Athens Institute 1874 - 1974 (Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut 10), Mainz 1986. ISBN 3-8053-0844-2
literature
- Peter Zazoff (editor): Opus nobile. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Ulf Jantzen. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969.
- Brigitte Freyer-Schauenburg , Ulrich Gehrig , Hermann Kienast : On the occasion of Ulf Jantzen's 90th birthday. In: Ancient World . Volume 30, 1999, pp. 527-528.
- Klaus Fittschen : Ulf Jantzen 1909-2000 . In: Athenian communications . Volume 115, 2000, pp. 1-10.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulf Jantzen in the catalog of the German National Library
Chair of Classical Archeology: Ernst Homann-Wedeking (1954–1959) | Ulf Jantzen (1960–1967) | Walter Hatto Gross (1968–1979) | Hans Georg Niemeyer (1980-2000) | Inge Nielsen (2000–2016) | Christof Berns (since 2018)
Further professorships for archeology and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean area: Peter Zazoff (1971–1987) | Hans Peter Laubscher (1977–1989) | Burkhard Fehr (1987-2007) | Martina Seifert (since 2010)
Professor according to § 17, 4: Lambert Schneider (1987–2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jantzen, Ulf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 2000 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |