Wulf Raeck

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Wulf Raeck (* 1950 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Wulf Raeck studied classical archeology, ancient history , classical philology and art history at the University of Bonn , the University of Hamburg and the University of Göttingen . He was born in 1980 with the work On the barbarian image in the art of Athens in the 6th and 5th centuries BC Chr. In Bonn and then traveled in 1980/81 as holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute in the Mediterranean area. After returning to Germany, Raeck became an assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich . There he completed his habilitation in 1987 with the work Modernized Myths. To deal with classical pictorial subjects in late antiquity and became an academic adviser there . In 1994 he was appointed to the chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Greifswald , which was re-established after the fall of the Wall . Two years later he changed to the chair at the University of Frankfurt .

From 1972 to 1975 Raeck took part in the German excavation in Pergamon under the direction of Wolfgang Radt , where he was deployed in the residential city excavation . From 1982 to 1995 he led the archaeological excavations during the restoration of the Pergamene Trajaneum . Raeck has been leading the excavations in Priene since 1998 and officially since 2000. Here he heads the research projects of the German Research Foundation for Urban Development, Housing and Living Conditions in Ancient Priene and The Hellenistic Polis as a Way of Life: Priene . With Hans-Markus von Kaenel , Rüdiger Krause and Jan-Waalke Meyer he publishes the Frankfurt Archaeological Writings , with Ursula Mandel and Ramazan Özgan the Knidos Studies . From 2009 to 2011 Raeck was first chairman of the Mommsen Society , from 2011 to 2013 he was second chairman.

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