Gerhard Koeppel

Gerhard Koeppel ( born October 30, 1936 in Nuremberg, † December 20, 2012 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Gerhard Koeppel was the son of a pharmacist. He spent the first nine years Marktredwitz. His family moved after the war to America. In Cincinnati, he attended elementary school and high school. In 1954, the family settled in Lindau. Three and a half years he attended the Ecole Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Lausanne. In 1958 in Fribourg the exam fédéral de maturité. In March 1959, he was the supplementary examination at the Uhland Gymnasium in Tübingen. This enabled him to study at a German university. Two semesters Koeppel was a guest student in Tübingen. He studied in Tübingen (1959-1962) and from 1962 in Cologne. In the winter semester 1966/67, he received his doctorate at Heinz Kähler with the work profectio and Adventus. Since 1968, he taught and conducted research at the Classics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1970 until his retirement, he taught there as a professor. In the meantime, he also taught over and over again some time in Rome as a professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (1980, 1989, 1998). In the years 1986-1988 he was Director of the Summer School of the American Academy in Rome.

Since his dissertation Koeppel specializing in the Roman statecraft. He worked on a corpus of Roman state reliefs, which were known in the research under the term Historical reliefs. His research has been in nine parts, under the title The historical reliefs of the Roman Empire in the Bonn yearbooks Vol 183 (1983) to Vol 192 (1992) published. Koeppel was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Writings

• Profectio and Adventus. In: Bonner Yearbooks, Vol 169 (1969), pp. 131-194.