Tonio Hölscher#
| Membership Number: | 2070 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor emeritus. Teaching until winter term 2009/10
- 2007 Sather Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
- 2004 - 2006 Director of the (newly founded) Department of Classical Studies, University of Heidelberg
- 2002 - 2004 Research Professor at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome
- 1997 - 1998 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Berlin
- 1993 Meyer Shapiro Visiting Professor at Columbia University New York
- 1989 Professore a contratto at the University of Naples
- 1983 - 1985 Dean of the Faculty of Oriental and Classical Studies
- 1975 - 2009 ord. Professor for Classical Archaeology, Director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Heidelberg
- 1972 Habilitation, University of Würzburg
- 1967 - 1975 Assistant at the Archaeological Institute, University of Würzburg
- 1966 - 1967 Travel Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute
- 1965 - 1966 Assistant at the Archaeological Institute, University of Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Images of myth in social contexts
- Images in the context of politics, social life and mentality
- Greek and Roman political monuments
- Urbanism: Public spaces in Greek and Roman cities
- Religion: Sanctuaries, cult instruments and religious rituals
- Cultural theory in classical archaeology
Honours and Awards
- German Archaeological Institute(Member of the Zentraldirektion, Substitute of the President in the Zentraldirektion)
- Academy of Sciences Heidelberg
- Austrian Archaeological Institute
- Academia Europaea scientiarum et atrium Vienna
- Accademia Pontaniana Napoli
- Academia Europaea London
