Markus Ritter (born 1967 in Brunswick and grown up in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

) is a German

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and scholar in

Oriental Studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studi ...

specializing on History of Islamic Art. Since 2012 he works as a tenured professor at the Department of Art History of the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

in Austria. Ritter studied at the

University of Bamberg The University of Bamberg (german: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) in Bamberg, Germany, specializes in the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, and applied computer science. Campus The university is mainly housed in ...

, the

American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

, and the

University of Teheran The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

the disciplines and fields Islamic Art History and Archaeology, Turkology, Iranian Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, and Building Archaeology (MA 1994, Dr. phil. 2003). Subsequently, Ritter worked as a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 2010, following teaching assignments at the University of Bamberg and the

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

, he was appointed to the newly founded Assistant Professorship for History of Islamic Art at the Fine Arts Department of the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

. In 2012 he moved as founding professor to the new chair of Islamic Art History at the Department of Art History of the

Books

* '' Moscheen und Madrasabauten in Iran 1785–1848: Architektur zwischen Rückgriff und Neuerung'', Brill: Leiden & Boston 2006 (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts; 62) * ''Der Goldkoran aus der Zeit der Seldschuken und Atabegs: Kommentar , The Golden Qur ’an from the Age of the Seljuks and Atabegs: Commentary'', Graz:

Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt :''There also were unrelated publishing houses in Stuttgart and in (East-)Berlin, and there is the (JAVG).'' The Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) is an Austrian book publisher in Graz that specialises primarily in publishing lavis ...

2015 (with Nourane Ben Azzouna) * ''Der umayyadische Palast des 8. Jahrhunderts in Ḫirbat al-Minya am See von Tiberias: Bau und Baudekor'', Wiesbaden 2017 (Studien zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie , Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology; 1)

Edited books

* ''Iran and iranisch geprägte Kulturen'', Wiesbaden 2008 (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 27) (with Ralph Kauz and Birgitt Hoffmann) * ''Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie'', vol. 2, Wiesbaden 2010 (with Lorenz Korn) * ''Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie'', vol. 5, Wiesbaden 2017 (with Ilse Sturkeboom and Fernando Valdéz Fernández)

External links

Selected articles and publications online

Website Department of Art History, University of Vienna
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ritter, Markus 1967 births Living people German art historians Academic staff of the University of Vienna Farabi International Award recipients German orientalists Iranologists Historians of Islamic art 20th-century German people 21st-century German people