Team

PD Dr. Othmar Jaeggi

Main areas of research

• Late Classical Attic Vasepainting
• Classical Sculpture and Greek Portraits
• Iconic Studies
• Cultural Exchange and Reception in ‹Contact Zones’: Iberian Peninsula, Near East, Black Sea Region
• Methodology
• Humanities Computing: databases, mass digitizing projects, digital photography

Current projects

• Attic Vases from Kerch (Ukraine). Study and publication of the Attic vases of the late classical period in the Museum of Kerch.
• Classical Sculpture from the Colección Condes de Lagunillas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba. This project is carried out together with the National Museum and the Winckelmann-Institute for Classical Archaeology of the Humboldt-University at Berlin.
• The Sculptures of the Cerro de los Santos (Albacete, Spain). Monographic article, together with Dr. Michael Blech (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Madrid) for the Madrider Mitteilungen.
• Death in Classical Iconography. Contribution, together with Prof. Dr. Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (University of Basle) to the Third Niveau of the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA).

Academic Curriculum

• 2005 Habilitation at the University of Freiburg i.B. with a study about Greek Portraits and what they are: «Individuelles Ideal – ideales Individuum. Was sind griechische Porträts?» Academic committee: Prof. Dr. V. Strocka, Prof. Dr. W. Megow (both University odf Freiburg i. Br.), Prof. Dr. G. Boehm (University of Basel)
• 2001–2005 Habilitation project. Athens and Basel. Supported by the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (Basel), Freiwillige Akademische Stiftung (Basel), Max Geldner-Stiftung (Basel)
• 1997 Rigorosum at the University of Basel. Dissertation: "Der Hellenismus auf der Iberischen Halbinsel. Studien zur iberischen Kunst und Kultur: Das Beispiel eines Rezeptionsvorgangs", Philipp von Zabern, Main (1999). Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Rolf A. Stucky (University of Basel), Dr. Michael Blech (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI, Madrid), Dr. Ricardo Olmos Romera (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - CSIC, Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
• 1994–1997 Dissertation project. Madrid (DAI and CSIC). Supported by Max Geldner-Stiftung (Basel), Janggen Pöhn-Stiftung (St. Gallen), L. & Th. La Roche-Foundation (Basel), Swiss National Science Foundation.
• 1992 Lizentiat (=MA) in Classical Archaeology at the University of Basel with the study: «Vier iberische Bronzen von Máquiz, Mengíbar, Prov. Jaén». Directors: Prof. Dr. Rolf A. Stucky; Dr. R. Olmos Romera.
• 1986–1992 Studies at the University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities: Classical Archaeology, Classical History, Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft.

Publications

• List of publications (PDF)