Guntram Koch

Johannes G. Deckers

Study of Classical Archaeology, Arthistory and Early Christian Archaeology at the Albrecht-Ludwig-University Freiburg. 1973 PhD in Early Christian Archaeology. 1974-1983 Director of excavations at the Department of Archaeology of the City of Cologne. 1975-1980 Lecturer for Christian Archaeology at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. 1976-94 Documentation of murals in roman catacombs. 1977-1978 Documentation of the late roman murals in the Imperial Cult Chamber in the Ammon Temple of Luxor. 1983-1987 Research fellow for Christian Archaeology at German Archeological Institute Rome. 1985-1989 Director of excavations in the Cancelleria in Rome. 1987-2005 Professor for Early Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Guntram Koch

1962-1969 Study of Classical Archaeology, Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Latin and Greek at Göttingen and Athens. 1970 PhD in Classical Archaeology. 1970-1981 assistant at the Seminar of Early Christian Archaeology in Göttingen. 1977 habilitation in Göttingen. 1981-2006 Prof. for Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the Philipps-University Marburg. Dr. h.c. of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristoteles University Thessaloniki; foreign member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences; Honorary Member of the Christian Archaeological Society at Athens
Fields of special interest: Sculpture of Roman imperial times and late antiquity, especially sarcophagi and grave monuments; early Christian and byzantine architecture