Thomas Mannack (born in 1958) 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 ...

. Mannack obtained his

Doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

in 1992 with at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. The thema of his dissertation was ''Beazleys spätere und späteste Manieristen''. He is a specialist in the field of ancient ceramics. He is in charge of the

Beazley Archive Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the U ...

database and teaches classical

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Writings

* ''The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase Painting''. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001 (English version of the dissertation) * ''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''.''Griechische Vasenmalerei. Eine Einführung''
on WorldCat thesis, Stuttgart 2002. , reviewed and bibliographically updated edition of Von Zabern, Darmstadt 2012.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mannack, Thomas Classical archaeologists German archaeologists Scholars of ancient Greek pottery University of Kiel alumni 1958 births Living people