Andreas Furtwängler

Andreas Ernst Gottfried Furtwängler (born 11 November 1944, Zürich) is a German classical archaeologist and numismatist, and professor of classical archeology at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

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 1976-1981 at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. In 1991, he was habilitated at the University of Saarbrucken and since 1994. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens.^[4]

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 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

• http://uni-halle.academia.edu/Departments/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Kunstgeschichte_und_Europ%C3%A4ische_Arch%C3%A4ologie
• Literature by and about Andreas Furtwängler in the German National Library catalogue