Urs Peschlow

Urs Peschlow (born March 11, 1943 in Hanover ; † March 16, 2018 in Wiesbaden ) was a German Christian archaeologist and Byzantine art historian .

Life

After attending the Leibniz School in Hanover, Urs Peschlow studied art history , classical archeology and Christian archeology at the universities of Marburg , Thessaloniki and Mainz from 1962 to 1970 . In 1970 he received his doctorate in Mainz with Richard Hamann-Mac Lean with a thesis on The Irish Church in Istanbul . This was followed in 1970/71 by a work contract at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute , and in 1971 he became a consultant at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute . 1975 to 1979 Peschlow was a fellow of the German Research Foundation in Istanbul, 1979/80 research fellow in Dumbarton Oaks . In 1981 he became a research assistant and in 1983 a university assistant at the University of Göttingen .

In 1985 he was offered a professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and taught at the Institute for Art History at Mainz University until his retirement in 2008 and was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

He was married to the classical archaeologist Anneliese Peschlow .

The Irish Church in Istanbul. Studies on architecture (= Istanbuler Mitteilungen, supplement 18). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-8030-1717-3 .
with Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann : Two late antique ruins in northern Mesopotamia (= session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1977, issue 2). CH Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-1483-6 .
with Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann, Joachim Kramer: Corpus of the capitals of the Church of San Marco in Venice (= research on art history and Christian archeology, volume 12). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-03208-8 .
with Otto Feld (ed.): Studies on late antique and Byzantine art. Dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann (= monographs of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Volume 10). Habelt, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-7749-2265-9 .
with Sabine Möllers (Ed.): Late Antiquity and Byzantine Building Sculpture. Contributions to a symposium in Mainz, February 1994 (= research on art history and Christian archeology, Volume 19). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07064-8 .
Ankara. The architectural archeological remains from Roman and Byzantine times . Phoibos, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85161-132-8 .

Martin Dennert : Urs Peschlow . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 112, 2019, pp. 266–271.
Philipp Niewöhner: In Memoriam Urs Peschlow. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 68, 2018, pp. 27–30 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Peschlow, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Christian archaeologist and Byzantine art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 2018
Place of death	Wiesbaden