Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner (2 June 1938

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- 11 August 2021

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) was a German

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and

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. Schwandner received his doctorate in 1975 from the Technischen Universität München (

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) with a thesis on the older temple of

Aphaia Aphaea ( grc-gre, Ἀφαία, ''Aphaía'') was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. Cult and worship She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local ...

Aegina Aegina (; el, Αίγινα, ''Aígina'' ; grc, Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina (mythology), Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born ...

(German title: ''Der Ältere Tempel der Aphaia auf Aegina'') under the supervision of

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. Until his retirement in 2004, Schwandner held the post of director of the architecture department of the

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(federal German archeological survey) in Berlin. In 2002 he joined the faculty at the Winkelmann Institute of the

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("Honorarprofessor"). The focus of Schwandner's research was the architectural history of ancient Greek architecture.

References

Publications

* ''Der Ältere Tempel der Aphaia auf Aegina''. (unpublished dissertation), Technische Universität, Munich 1977; * Der ältere Porostempel der Aphaia auf Aegina. ''Denkmäler antiker Architektur'' 16, ; * Akarnanien, die unbekannte Landschaft Griechenlands. Feldforschungen in Stratos und Palairos. ''Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie'' 17 (2000–01): 8-22.

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of the DAI (in German) 1938 births 2021 deaths Archaeologists from Berlin Technical University of Munich alumni {{germany-bio-stub