Prof. Dr. Rolf Michael Schneider
Emeritus
Büroadresse:
Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10
80333 München
Sprechstunde:
Nach Vereinbarung
Emeritus
Büroadresse:
Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10
80333 München
Sprechstunde:
Nach Vereinbarung
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Monographien
1950
Born in Hamburg
1971
Humanistisches Abitur, Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium, Hamburg
1971-1982
Study of Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, Ethnology and Theology, University of Hamburg, University of Heidelberg and German Archaeological Institute, Rome
1982
Dr. phil. in Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg; doctoral thesis: Bunte Barbaren, Orientalenstatuen aus farbigem Marmor in der römischen Repräsentationskunst (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tonio Hölscher and Professor Géza Alföldy)
1982-1983
Research grant, Stiftung Volkswagenwerk; project "Roman gems and glass gems: communicating politics and ideologies in early imperial Rome"
1984-1985
1987-1990
Assistant Research Professor, Archaeological Institute, University of Heidelberg, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1991
Habilitation in Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg (Dr. phil. habil.); topic: Dionysischer Rausch und gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit, Großplastische Satyrbilder hellenistischer Zeit
1992-1998
Associate Professor, Archaeological Institute, University of Heidelberg
1994/95 and 1995/96
Acting Professor for the Chair of Classical Archaeology, University of Marburg
1996/97
Acting Professor for the Chair of Classical Archaeology, University of Munich
1997
Guest Professor, Harvard University, Department of the Classics (October)
1998-2001
1999-2001
2000-2001Curator of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge2001
2001-2016
2002-
Referee for Cambridge University Press2004-
2006-
member of the network "Ancient and Modern Imperialisms"
2007-2010
Field research grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft "Pompeiopolis in Phlagonien. Erforschung einer antiken Metropole im türkischen Schwarzmeergebiet"
2008-2013
Field research grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft "Kelenai/Apameia Kibotos und sein Umland. Erforschung einer Königsresidenz in Phrygien"
2006-
member of the network "Ancient and Modern Imperialisms"
2008-
2009-
2010-2012
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Landesausstellung "Otto Imperator. Kaisertum im ersten Jahrtausend", Magdeburg, Kulturhistorisches Museum (exhibition: August - Dezember 2012)
2012
Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; topic "Production of Knowledge"
2012 and 2013
Guest Scholar at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2012-
2012-2019
Travel grants and publication subsidy from the Gerda Henkel Foundation "Von der Blaupause zum Marmorfries. Verhandlungen zum Entwurf, Herstellung und Deutung der historischen Reliefbilder der Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria"
2013-2015
Collaboration with Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray (New Delhi / Munich; Anneliese Maier Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2013);project: "Cross-cultural dialogue: India and the wider world in ancient history"
2014
2014-2015
Appointment by the Wissenschaftsrat (German Council of Science and Humanities) to the evaluation committee "Deutsches Archäologisches Institut"
2014-2016
Research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft "Geschichte(n) in Marmor. Der Fries des Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria"
2015
2016
2016 - 2018
Member of the Scientific Board of the exhibition "Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World", Getty Center, Los Angeles (March to September 2018)
2017
Summer Research Scholar of the Getty Villa, Malibu (July to August), supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
2017 - 2020
With Kristine Bøggild Johannsen and Jane Fejfer (both Copenhagen) senior adviser of the exhibition "Powerful Presence: The modernity of Thorvaldsen’s sculpted portraits", in collaboration with the Thorvaldsens Museum, the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; funded by the Velux Foundation.
Exhibition "Face to Face. Thorvaldsen and Portraiture" (March to December 2020)
2018
Guitty Azarpay Distinguished Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley (January to May)
2019 -
2022
Papers and teaching abroad
Austria, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, U.S.A.