Wolfram Hoepfner (born 16 March 1937, in
Breslau) is a German classicist, archaeologist, architectural historian, and Professor of Ancient Architectural History, at the
Free University of Berlin
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.
Life
He studied at the Free University of Berlin, and at
Technische Universität Berlin
(TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...
, in Classical Archaeology and architecture.
In 1965, he received his doctorate on the subject of
Heraclea Pontica
Heraclea Pontica (; ; , ), known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea (), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus. The site is now the location of the modern city Karadeniz Ereğli, in ...
.
He received his Dr.-Ing. 's degree, with the thesis, ''Eine baugeschichtliche Untersuchung''.
He then became assistant to
Heinrich Ernst.
He participated in excavations in Alzey, under the direction of
Wilhelm Unverzagt, in the
Kerameikos
Kerameikos (, ) also known by its latinization of names, Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, Athens, Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient ci ...
in Athens (
Dieter Oly and
Gottfried Gruben), in Persia (
Heinz Luschey), Bithynia and in Commagene (
Friedrich Karl Dörner
Friedrich Karl Dörner (born 28 February 1911 in Gelsenkirchen; died 10 March 1992) was a German classicist, classics, epigrapher and archeology, Classical Archeologist.
Born in 1911 as son of the mining office Karl Dörner and his wife Klara in G ...
).
In 1965 to 1966, he was a year travel scholarship of 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 ...
(DAI).
For the DAI in 1966, he was also active in the department in Athens.
From 1973, he was head of the newly established Office of Architecture at the headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and the second director of the DAI office.
In 1975, he earned habilitation at the TU Berlin, and was appointed a professor there in 1980.
In 1988, he was appointed Professor of Ancient Architectural History, at the Free University Berlin.
He retired in the winter semester of 2001 to 2002.
He led excavations for ordinary members of the DAI to Greece and Asia Minor.
He headed the excavations in Kassope, with
Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner,
Sotiris Dakaris and
K. Gravani.
With Schwandner, he also heads the research project "Living in the classical polis." Hoepfner is considered an expert on the architecture of the Late Classic, particularly academic buildings, for the late Hellenistic architecture and the topography of ancient Rhodes.
Works
*''Das Pompeion und seine Nachfolgerbauten'', de Gruyter, Berlin 1976 (Kerameikos, Bd. 10)
*''Haus und Stadt im klassischen Griechenland'' (with Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner),
Deutscher Kunstverlag
The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich. The publisher specializes in books about art, cultural history, architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and bu ...
, München 1986 (Wohnen in der klassischen Polis, Bd. 1)
*''Die griechische Polis. Architektur und Politik'' (ed. with Gerhard Zimmer), Wasmuth, Tübingen 1993 (Schriften des Seminars für Klassische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin)
*''Das dorische Thera'', Gebrüder Mann, Berlin ab 1997 (Schriften des Seminars für Klassische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin)
*''Antike Bibliotheken'' (ed.), von Zabern, Mainz 2002 (Antike Welt Sonderband; Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie)
*''Der Koloß von Rhodos und die Bauten des Helios. Neue Forschungen zu einem der Sieben Weltwunder'', voan Zabern, Mainz 2003 (Antike Welt Sonderband; Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie)
*Friedrich Karl Dörner (ed) ''Arsameia am Nymphaios'', E. Wasmuth, 1983,
References
External links
*
Publications by Wolfram Hoepfner at Propylaeum-DOK
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Living people
1937 births
German classical scholars
Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin