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Andreas Furtwängler

Andreas Ernst Gottfried Furtwängler (born 11 November 1944, Zürich) is a German cl*ical archaeologist and numismatist, and professor of cl*ical archeology at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He is the son of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and grandson of the archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler.

His work was celebrated by a Festschrift in 2009.

Contents

  • 1 Life
  • 2 Selected publications
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Life

He received his PhD in 1973 at Heidelberg University with a thesis on ancient Greek numismatics supervised by Herbert A. Cahn. He worked from 1976 to 1981 at the German Archaeological Ins*ute at Athens. In 1991, he was habilitated at the University of Saarbrucken and since 1994. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Ins*ute at Athens.

From 1993 to 2003 he carried out excavations and surveys in Georgia, 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 M*alia 525/520 - 460 av. J.C., Fribourg 1978 (Typos, 3)
  • with Hermann J. Kienast: Samos, 3. Der Nordbau im Heraion von Samos, Bonn 1989
  • with Than*is 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. Amp*nfunde in Demetrias., Würzburg 2003

References

    External links

    • Ins*ut für Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Archäologie
    • Literature by and about Andreas Furtwängler in the German National Library catalogue