Valentin Kockel

Valentin Kockel (born September 23, 1948 in Bad Lauterberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Valentin Kockel is the grandson of Richard Kockel and the son of Carl Walter Kockel . From 1969 to 1977 he studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Pre- and Protohistory at the Universities of Marburg , Freiburg , Göttingen and Rome . In 1978 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with the thesis "The tombs in front of the Herkulaner Tor in Pompeii". This was followed by a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute until 1979 . From 1979 to 1984 he worked as an assistant at his department in Rome, then until 1989 as a research assistant in the field of classical archeology in the architecture department at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1989 he completed his habilitation there with the thesis “City Roman portrait reliefs of the late republic and early imperial times. A Contribution to the History of the Republican Portrait and its Research ”. This was followed by six more years as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Valentin Kockel has been Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Augsburg since 1995 , where he retired at the end of the 2013/14 winter semester.

Kockel is head of the current research of the Forum of Pompeii and together with Salvatore Ortisi (* 1965) of the so-called Macellum of Ostia . In addition to exploring the old Vesuvius cities, he deals with ancient topography, architecture, sculpture and the reception of ancient times.

Fonts

• The tombs in front of the Herkulaner Tor in Pompeii , von Zabern, Mainz 1983 ( Contributions to the development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture , Vol. 1) ISBN 3-8053-0480-3
• Portrait reliefs of urban Roman grave structures. A contribution to the history and understanding of the late republican early imperial era private portrait , von Zabern, Mainz 1993 ( Contributions to the development of Hellenistic and imperial sculpture and architecture , vol. 12) ISBN 3-8053-1305-5
• with Werner Helmberger (Ed.): Carrying Rome over the Alps. Princes collect ancient architecture. The Aschaffenburg cork models , Arcos-Verlag, Landshut 1993
• Phelloplastica. Modelli in sughero dell'architettura antica nel XVIII secolo nella collezione di Gustavo III di Svezia , Suecoromana III, Stockholm 1998
• (Ed.): Francesco Bianchini (1662 - 1729) and the European learned world around 1700 , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005 (Colloquia Augustana, Vol. 21) ISBN 3-05-004133-1
• with Daniel Graepler (ed.): Daktyliotheken. Gods and Caesars from the drawer. Antique gems in collections of prints from the 18th and 19th centuries , Verlag Bierig and Brinkmann, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-930609-51-7
• Pompei, Pompeii 360 °. The two panoramas by Carl Georg Enslen from 1826 , Electa, Milan 2006 ISBN 88-370-4364-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Valentin Kockel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Augsburg
• Writings by Valentin Kockel in Propylaeum-DOK