Andreas Ernst Gottfried Furtwängler (born 11 November 1944,

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) is a German classical archaeologist and numismatist, and professor of classical archeology at

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. He is the son of the conductor

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and grandson of the archaeologist

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. His work was celebrated by a

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in 2009.Einicke, Ralph, and Andreas E. Furtwängler. Zurück zum Gegenstand: Festschrift für Andreas E. Furtwängler 2. Langenweißbach: Beier & Beran, 2009.

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Life

He received his PhD in 1973 at

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with a thesis on ancient Greek numismatics supervised by Herbert A. Cahn. He worked from 1976 to 1981 at the

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. In 1991, he was habilitated at the

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and since 1994. He is a corresponding member of the

. From 1993 to 2003 he carried out excavations and surveys in

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, and since 2002 he has been involved in the Daisen Didyma project.

Selected publications

* ''Monnaies grecques en Gaule. Le trésor d'Auriol et le monnayage de Massalia 525/520 - 460 av. J.C.'', Fribourg 1978 (Typos, 3) Dissertation* with Hermann J. Kienast: ''Samos, 3. Der Nordbau im Heraion von Samos'', Bonn 1989 * with Thanassis Kalpaxes; Alain Schnapp: ''Eλεύθερνα, 2, 2. Éνα ελληνιστικό σπίτι (σπίτι A) στη θέση Nησί'', Rethymnon 1994 * with Gerhard Zimmer; G. Schneider: ''Demetrias, 6. Hellenistische Bronzegusswerkstätten in Demetrias. Lampenproduktion und -importe im hellenistischen Demetrias. Amphorenfunde in Demetrias.'', Würzburg 2003

References

External links

Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Archäologie
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Furtwangler, Andreas German classical scholars German numismatists Living people 1944 births Scientists from Zurich Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Heidelberg University alumni Archaeologists from Berlin Academic staff of Saarland University

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