Wolfgang Müller-Wiener

Wolfgang Müller-Wiener (born May 17, 1923 in Friedrichswerth (Thuringia), † March 25, 1991 in Istanbul ) was a German building researcher .

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1948 to 1951 and received his doctorate in 1954 on the development of industrial construction in Baden . From 1962 to 1967 he was the second director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo and during this time led the excavations at Abu Mena near Alexandria . After his habilitation in 1965 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, he became a full professor for building history at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1967 . In 1976 he was elected the first director of the German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department . From 1974 until his retirement in 1988 he led the excavation in Miletus , where he himself examined three Hellenistic temples and Heroa with Berthold Weber and the early Christian buildings. The guest track of the DAI Istanbul Wolfgang-Müller-Wiener-Kolleg was named in his honor .

Fonts

• with Armin von Gerkan : The Theater of Epidauros , W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1961.
• Medieval fortifications in southern Ionia. In: Istanbul communications. Vol. 11, ISSN  0341-9142 , 1961, pp. 5-122.
• The City Fortifications of Izmir, Sigacik and Çandarli: Notes on the Medieval Topography of Northern Ionia. In: Istanbul communications. Vol. 12, 1962, pp. 59-114.
• Crusader castles in the Holy Land, Cyprus and the Aegean Sea. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1966.
• Pictorial dictionary on the topography of Istanbul. Byzantium, Constantinupolis, Istanbul until the beginning of the 17th century. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-8030-1022-5 .
• From the polis to the castron. In: Gymnasium. Vol. 93, 1986, pp. 435-475.
• Greek civil engineering in ancient times. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32993-4 .
• The ports of Byzantion, Constantinupolis, Istanbul. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8030-1042-X .

literature

• Wolf Koenigs : In Memoriam Wolfgang Müller-Wiener May 17, 1923 - March 25, 1991. In: Istanbul communications. Vol. 41, 1991, pp. 13-16.
• Martin Dennert, Otto field: List of publications by Wolfgang Müller-Wiener. In: Istanbul communications. Vol. 41, 1991, pp. 17-24.
• Wulf Schirmer : Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, May 17, 1923 - March 25, 1991. In: Architectura. Vol. 21, 1991, pp. 1-2.
• Wolf Koenigs:  Müller-Wiener, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 512 ( digitized version ).
• Elfriede Müller-Wiener: Wolfgang Müller-Wiener (1923–1991). His life path recorded for his family, friends and co-workers. sn, Darmstadt 1995.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Müller-Wiener in the catalog of the German National Library