Henner von Hesberg (born 24 December 1947 in

Lüneburg Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German Bundesland (Germany), state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of another Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city, Hambur ...

) is a German classical archaeologist. Henner von Hesberg studied classical archaeology,

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

classical philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

and

art history Art history is the study of Work of art, artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Tradit ...

from 1968 to 1975 at Bonn, Marburg and Wurzburg. He received his doctorate at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Prote ...

from Heinrich Drerup for his dissertation ''Zur Entwicklung und Funktion des Konsolengeison im Hellenismus und in der frühen Kaiserzeit'' (On the development and function of the Konsolengeison in the Hellenistic and early Imperial period). After that he received a scholarship from the

German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office, Federal Foreign Office of Germany. Status, tasks and ...

and was employed by them in

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and

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

. From 1979 to 1983, von Hesberg was an Assistant lecturer at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

and he received his

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there in 1983 for ''Formen privater Repräsentation in der Baukunst des 2. und 1. Jahrhunderts v. Chr'' (Forms of private display in the architecture of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC). In 1984 he became a C2-Professor at Munich and in 1987 he received a Chair at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

, where he was spokesman for the graduate programme "Formierung und Selbstdarstellung städtischer Eliten im Römischen Reich" (Formation and Self-Representation of Civic Elites in the Roman Empire) and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy from 1995 to 1997. From November 2006 until spring 2014, von Hesberg was the first director of the of the German Archaeological Institute. For this time he was on a leave of absence from the university of Cologne. At the end of February 2014 he formally retired from his position at Cologne. His successor since 2006 has been Michael Heinzelmann. Von Hesberg is an ordinary member of the Mainz

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur The Academy of Sciences and Literature () is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to support science and literature, and in doing so to help preserve and pr ...

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in Mainz In 2008/9 he delivered the ''Jerome Lecture Series'' at the

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. Henner von Hesberg focused especially on

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

and

Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often con ...

, urbanism, architectural decoration, Roman tomb structures, Hellenistic court art and art in the

Roman province The Roman provinces (, pl. ) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as Roman g ...

s. A geographic focus of his work was ancient Italy, especially the city of Rome and its neighbourhood.

Selected publications

* ''Konsolengeisa des Hellenismus und der frühen Kaiserzeit'' orbel Geisons of the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Period(= ''Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Römische Abteilung.'' Ergänzungs-Heft 24). Zabern, Mainz 1981, . * ''Römische Grabbauten'' oman Funerary Structures Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1992, . * ''Formen privater Repräsentation in der Baukunst des 2. und 1. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.'' orms of Private Representation in Architectural Art of the 2nd and 1st Centuries BCBöhlau, Köln 1994, . * with Silvio Panciera: ''Das Mausoleum des Augustus. Der Bau und seine Inschriften'' he Mausoleum of Augustus: The Building and its Inscriptions">Mausoleum_of_Augustus.html" ;"title="he Mausoleum of Augustus">he Mausoleum of Augustus: The Building and its Inscriptions(= ''Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Abhandlungen der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse, N.F.'' 108). Beck, München 1994, . * with Harald Mielsch: ''Die heidnische Nekropole unter St. Peter in Rom'' [The Pagan Necropolis under St. Peter's Basilica, St Peter's in Rome]. (= ''Atti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia, Ser. 03, Memorie.'' 16). L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 1995 . * with Dietrich Boschung,

Andreas Linfert Andreas () is a name derived from the Greek noun ἀνήρ ''anēr'', with genitive ἀνδρός ''andros'', which means "man". See the article on Andrew for more information. The Scandinavian name is earliest attested as antreos in a runestone ...

: ''Die antiken Skulpturen in Chatsworth sowie in Dunham Massey und Withington Hall'' Chatsworth, Dunham Massey Hall">Dunham Massey Dunham Massey is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The parish includes the villages of Sinderland Green, Dunham Woodhouses and Dunham Town, along with Dunham Massey Hall and Park, formerly th ...

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