#  Felix Pirson 

German Archaeological Institute (DAI)

2019 Grant Recipient

 

 

 



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###  ***[Casa dei Postumii VIII 4, 4. 49 and its insula. A Diachronic Study of a Multifunctional Architectural Complex at Pompeii](/casa-dei-postumii-viii-4-4-49-and-its-insula-diachronic-study-multifunctional)***

 The publication project is headed by **Felix Pirson** together with **Jens-Arne Dickmann**, with whom he jointly directed the field-project. The missing chapters of the publication as well as its final preparation will be provided by Pia Kastenmeier, who participated in the field-project as a student and has meanwhile developed an outstanding research-profile within the Archaeology of the Vesuvian cities.

 **Felix Pirson** is a Classical Archaeologist. He holds a MPhil from Cambridge University and a Master-Degree and a PhD from Munich University and is Honorary Professor at Leipzig University. Since 2006 he has been First Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Istanbul and director of the Pergamon-Excavation (Bergama, Turkey). He was awarded with a guest-professorship at the ÉPHE at Paris in 2014 and is a senior fellow at ISAW (New York University). His main research topics are ancient urbanism, the Vesuvian cities, Pergamon, human-environment relations and images of war and violence in antiquity.



 

 

 





 

 

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