Prof. Dr. Martin Langner

Institute Director, Head of "Image and Object"

Curriculum Citae

After studying Classical Archaeology and Classical Philology in Cologne and Bonn, Martin Langner received his doctorate from Henner von Hesberg with a dissertation on "Ancient Graffiti Drawings". This was followed by the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. After working in Rome and Göttingen, he worked as a research assistant for Adolf H. Borbein, Friederike Fless and Johanna Fabricius at the Free University of Berlin, where he finished his habilitation in 2012 with a thesis on "Masterpieces and mass-produced goods. Chronology, decor and function of late red-figure picture vases from Athens ". He then headed the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Cologne. From there he accepted a professorship for Classical Archaeology and its digital methodology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. Martin Langner has held the professorship for Digital Image and Artefact Science in Göttingen since 2019.

Martin Langner's research interests include contextual image analysis (mainly Greek vase painting, Roman mural painting and relief), 3D digitisation and analysis of ancient sculpture, virtual historical spaces and museums, research on ancient and post-ancient everyday culture, and fundamentally the theory and methodology of scientific and information technology methods in the humanities.