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Paul Zanker (* February 7, 1937 in Constance) is a German classical archaeologist.

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Paul Zanker studied classical archeology and history in Munich, Rome and Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1962 and habilitated in 1967. Then he was a lecturer in Freiburg. From 1972 to 1976 there was a decent professor in Göttingen, from 1976 to 2002 professor of classical archeology at the University of Munich and at the same time director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome from 1995 to 2002. During the same period, he was director of the Munich Museum of Disposal of Classic Images, which was able to reach the old size under his direction. After his retirement in 2002, Zanker taught for a few years as a professor of ancient art history ( History of ancient art ) Normal Superiore in Pisa at the Scuola. In the academic year 1993/94, Zanker Fellow was at the science college in Berlin. [first]

Zanker’s studies on Roman transformations of Greek statues, the Roman portrait, the political dimension of ancient art, especially in the time of August, as well as the Pompejan residential taste, were directional in classical archeology and have initiated numerous research. His study Augustus and the power of the pictures learned several editions and was not only received intensively by archaeologists, but also by old historians.

Zanker is a decent member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Fellow der British Academy, der Academia Europaea (1992), [2] the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. As a member of the Bavarian Academy, Zanker is also chairman of the Kommission für das body of the ancient vessels and the Commission for researching ancient city system . Paul Zanker was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990/1991 and was awarded the Reuchlin Prize of the city of Pforzheim in 1999, 2008 with the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. In 2021, Zanker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Change of Hermes figure in Attic vase painting . Habelt, Bonn 1965 (at the same time dissertation, 1962).
  • Market August. Das Bildprogramm . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1968.
  • Forum Romanum. The redesign by Augustus. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1968 ISBN 3-8030-1404-2.
  • Classicist statues. Studies on changing the taste of art in the Roman Empire. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1974 (habilitation thesis).
  • Studies on the Augustus portraits. Band 1: Der Actium-Type (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-History Class. Episode 3, Volume 85). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 ISBN 3-525-82358-4.
  • Provincial imperial portraits. On the reception of the self -portrayal of the Princeps (= Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, philosophical-historical class. New episode, Volume 90). C. H. Beck, Munich 1983.
  • With Klaus Fittschen and Petra Cain: Catalog of Roman portraits in the Capitolinian museums and the other municipal collections of the city of Rome. 4 volumes, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 1983–2014.
  • Augustus and the power of the pictures. C. H. Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32067-8 (also: Leipzig, Koehler & Amelang 1987); 4th edition 2003.
  • The drunken old. The laughing of the mocked. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-596-23960-5.
  • Pompeii. Cityscape and taste of living (= Cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 61). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-8053-1685-2.
  • Editor with Michael Wörrle: Cityscape and citizen picture in Hellenism (Vestigia, Volume 47) . C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39036-6
  • The mask of the Socrates. The image of the intellectual in ancient art. C.H. Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39080-3.
  • An art for the senses. On the image world of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Wagenbach, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8031-5162-7.
  • With Björn Christian Ewald: Live with myths. The picture world of the Roman sarcophagi. Hirmer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7774-9650-2.
  • The apotheosis of the Roman emperors. Ritual and urban stage . Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich 2004.
  • The Roman art. C. H. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54688-4.
  • The Roman city. A short story. C. H. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66248-5.
  1. ↑ Fellowfinder
  2. ↑ entry On the website of the Academia Europaea

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