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Prof. Franz Alto Bauer

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik

Education and Academic Degrees:

  • 2001 Universität Basel: Habilitation (Venia legendi for History of Art).
  • 1986-1991 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich: Magister Artium (M.A.) in History of Late Antique and Byzantine Art, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology (Overall grade: 1.0)
  • 1991-1993 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich: Promotion (Ph.D.). Overall grade: 0.8 (dissertation: summa cum laude; exams: magna cum laude)

Awards and Honors:

  • 1997 Richard-Krautheimer-Medal
  • 2007 Clemens-Maria-Brentano-Preis für Archäologie

Professional Positions:

  • 2009/10: TOPOI-Guest-professor at the Humboldt-University at Berlin
  • 2006 Professor for History of Late-Antique and Byzantine Art, University of Munich
  • 2005: Visiting Professor and der Columbia University in New York
  • Spring 2003 Visiting Professor for Medieval Art at the University of Zürich
  • 2002-2003 Research fellow at the German Archaeological Institute at Istanbul
  • Fall 2002 Visiting Professor for Medieval Art at the University of Basel
  • Spring 2001 Visiting Professor for Late Antique and Byzantine Art at the Ludwig-
    Maximilians-Universität at Munich
  • 1997-2002: Referent (Director of Studies) for the History of Late Antique and Early Medieval Art at the German Archeological Institute at Rome

Selected Publications: Books and Edited Volumes

  • Stadt, Platz und Denkmal in der Spätantike. Untersuchungen zur Ausstattung des öffentlichen Raums in den spätantiken Städten Rom, Konstantinopel und Ephesos, Mainz 1996
  • Päpstliche Stiftungspolitik im Spiegel des Liber Pontificalis (Gregor III. - Leo III.): Bild und Wirklichkeit (PALILIA 13), Wiesbaden 2003
  • Gabe und Person. Zur personalen Aura von Objekten in der Spätantike. Eichstätter Universitätsreden 116, Eichstätt 2009
  • Epochenwandel? Kunst und Kultur zwischen Antike und Mittelalter (2000). together with Norbert Zimmermann
  • Visualisierungen von Herrschaft. Frühmittelalterliche Residenzen - Gestalt und Zeremoniell (2006)
  • Statuen und Statuensammlungen in der Spätantike (2008). together with Chr. Witschel
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