Gunnar Brands

Gunnar Brands ( born March 30, 1956 in Duisburg ) is a German classical archaeologist.

Life

Gunnar Brands grew up in Duisburg, where he took his Abitur in 1975 at the State High School from classical languages ​​Landfermann. Since 1977, he studied classical and Christian Archaeology, Ancient History and Latin at Bonn, Heidelberg, and Rome, since 1979, in addition architecture at the RWTH Aachen. In 1985 he received his doctorate with a thesis in the field of early Roman architecture in Italy at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with Hanns Fork Man in Classical Archaeology. After traveling scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute, he worked since 1987 as a research fellow at the Sana'a Branch of the German Archaeological Institute ( DAI) in the Yemen Arab Republic. From 1988 to 1994 Brands assistant at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin, where he habilitated in 1994 with a thesis on the late antique architecture in Syria. In the same year he became assistant professor at the Institute for Building and Art History at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Since 1996 Brands is professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine History of Art at the Institute of Oriental Archaeology and Art History at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. 1993/94 and 2000/ 01 he was a Fellow for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and Fulbright Fellow. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Brands conducts research primarily for late antique and early Christian architecture of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, in particular Syria, Asia Minor and southern Arabia, the architectural decoration of Late Antiquity and the topography of Eastern Christianity, but also to Hellenistic and Roman architecture and afterlife of antiquity between the Renaissance and the 20th century. Recently Brands worked in Antakya / Turkey, the ancient Antioch on the Orontes.

Publications

• As co-editor with Martin Maischberger: Research Cluster 5/Lebensbilder. Classical archaeologist and National Socialism I. publisher Maria Leidorf, Rahden / Westphalia in 2012, ISBN 978-3-86757-382-5.