Ulrich Rüdiger (archaeologist)

Ulrich Heinz Rüdiger (born September 12, 1934 in Altona adElbe ; † August 21, 1970 at Roccanova ( Potenza )) was a German classical archaeologist .

Ulrich Rüdiger, son of the literary scholar Horst Rüdiger , attended school in Florence and Merano and passed the school leaving examination in Merano in 1952. From the winter semester 1952/53 he studied classical archeology, Greek and art history at the University of Freiburg . From the winter semester 1953/54 to the winter semester 1954/55 he studied in Munich , in the summer semester 1955 in Heidelberg . For the winter semester 1955/56 he returned to Freiburg, where he worked with Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt in 1960 with the Askoi work . A doctorate was awarded to the development and importance of a vessel shape . After graduating, he became an assistant in the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute . He led the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in Basilicata . He then became a professor at the University of Urbino , where he taught Italian prehistory. Rüdiger dealt with ancient ceramics, the Anaglypha Hadriani and specialist history, especially with Johann Joachim Winckelmann . He died in a car accident.

Publications

• Askoi. On the development and significance of a vessel shape . Dissertation Freiburg i. Br. 1960 (with curriculum vitae)
• Askoi in southern Italy. In: Roman communications . Volume 73-74, 1966-1967, pp. 1-9.
• with Peter Noelke : A late classical youth's head in Gallipoli. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . Born 1967, pp. 369–376.
• with Helmut Schläger : Santa Maria d'Anglona (comune Tursi, provincia Matera). Rapporto preliminare sulle due campagne di scavi negli anni 1965 e 1966. In: Notes degli scavi di antichita. Volume 21, 1967, pp. 331-353.
• A privately owned latial amphora. In: Roman communications. Volume 75, 1968, pp. 1-8.
• with Helmut Schläger: Santa Maria d'Anglona (comune Tursi, provincia Matera). Scavi nell'anno 1967. In: Note degli scavi di antichita. Volume 23, 1969, pp. 171-179.
• On some of the epithets of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust. In: Arcadia. Volume 5, 1970, pp. 195-196.
• The Anaglypha Hadriani. In: Ancient plastic. Volume 12, 1973, pp. 161-173.

literature

• Obituary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 5, 1970, p. 33
• Uli Albrecht: Ulrich Rüdiger. In: The Caravan. Volume 11, 1970, Issue 4, pp. 3-4.
• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 334.