Matthias Steinhart (born 17 April 1966 in

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population o ...

) is a German

Classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

Life and work

After attending the humanistic Scheffel-Gymnasium in Lahr, Matthias Steinhart studied classical archaeology, Greek philology, and ancient history at

Bonn University The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

and

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from 1985 to 1994 (from 1998 with a scholarship from the

Studienstiftung The German Academic Scholarship Foundation (German: , or ''Studienstiftung'' for short) is Germany's largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation. According to its statutes, it supports "the university education of young people who, on ac ...

). In 1990 he received his masters and in 1994 he achieved a doctorate with the dissertation "Das Motiv des Auges in der griechischen Bildkunst" (The Motif of the Eye in Greek Art," supervised by

Erika Simon Erika Simon (27 June 1927 – 15 February 2019) was a German scholar of classical archaeology and professor emeritus of the University of Würzburg. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. Simon died in February 2019 at the ...

. From the middle of 1998 until the middle of 2000, Steinhart was employed by the Freiburg University ancient history department on

Hans-Joachim Gehrke Hans-Joachim Gehrke (born 28 October 1945, Salzgitter-Lebenstedt) is a German archaeologist. From 1987 until 2008 he was professor of Ancient History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, having previously taught at the Universities of G� ...

and Eckhard Wirbelauer's research project "Antiken von Ithaka – ein imaginäres Museum" (Antiquities of Ithaca: an imaginary museum). After this he was employed by the same institution for two more years, as a member of sub-project B 1 "Römisch-imperiale und regionale Identitäten und ihr Wechselspiel im östlichen Imperium Romanum" (Roman Imperial and Regional Identities and their Interaction in the Eastern Roman Empire), part of special research area 541 "Identitäten und Alteritäten. Die Funktion von Alterität für die Konstitution und Konstruktion von Identität" (Identities and Otherings. The Function of Othering for the Constitution and Construction of Identity). Steinhart investigated Pausanias and the cultural identity of Greece in Roman times. During this period, he completed his

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in 2001 at Freiburg University. From 2002 to 2005, Steinhart was a research assistant, from 2005 to 2006 was a member of the academic council, and since 2006, has been a

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at the Archaeological Institute of Freiburg University. Since 1 January 2008, Steinhart has been conservator at the

Staatliche Antikensammlungen The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (, ''State Collections of Antiquities'') is a museum in Munich's Kunstareal holding Bavaria's collections of antiquities from Greece, Etruria and Rome, though the sculpture collection is located in the opposite Gly ...

and Glyptothek in Munich. On 26 August 2008 he received his Umhabilitation from Munich University. Since 1 December 2011, he has held the chair of Classical Archaeology at Würzburg University. In addition, he is in charge of the antiquities collection of the university's

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. In 2014, he was made a member of the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledg ...

Selected writings

* ''Das Motiv des Auges in der griechischen Bildkunst'' (The Motif of the Eye in Greek Art), von Zabern, Mainz 1995 (= Dissertation) * ''Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung. Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann'' (Ceramic Art and Masters' art: Attic Wine and Oil amphorae in the Sammlung Zimmermann), von Zabern, Mainz 1996 * with Friedhelm Hoffmann, ''Tiere vom Nil'' (Animals of the Nile), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001 (Ägyptische Terrakotten in Würzburg (Schenkung Gütte), Heft 1) * with Eckhard Wirbelauer: ''Aus der Heimat des Odysseus. Reisende, Grabungen und Funde auf Ithaka und Kephallenia bis zum ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert'' (From the Homeland of Odysseus. Travels, Excavations, and Discoveries from Ithaka and Kephallenia to the end of the Nineteenth Century), van Zabern, Mainz 2002 ( Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt, Vol. 87) * ''Die Kunst der Nachahmung. Darstellungen mimetischer Vorführungen in der griechischen Bildkunst archaischer und klassischer Zeit'' (The Art of Imitation. Depictions of Actors in Greek Art of the Archaic and Classical Periods), von Zabern, Mainz 2004 (= Habilitationsschrift) * ''Bilder der virtus. Tafelsilber der Kaiserzeit und die großen Vorbilder Roms: Die Lanx von Stráže'' (Images and Virtues. Table Silver of the Imperial period and the Great Models of Rome: The Lanx of Stráže). Steiner, Stuttgart 2009 (Collegium Beatus Rhenanus, Band 2)

External links

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Biographic profile, University of Würzburg

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