1988 - 1990
Studied Classical Archaeology (main subject), Egyptology (1st minor subject) and Ancient History (2nd minor subject) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

1990 - 1991
Studies at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, participation in archaeological, ancient historical and Etruscan lectures, seminars and excursions.

1991 - 1994
Studied Classical Archaeology (main subject), Egyptology (1st minor subject) and Ancient History (2nd minor subject) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg.

1995
Magister Artium in Classical Archaeology, Egyptology and Ancient History, topic of the Master's thesis: "The Vase Collection of Erbach Castle in the Odenwald" under Professor Dr Tonio Hölscher at the University of Heidelberg.

1996 - 1999
Member of the Research Training Group (DFG) of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn "The Renaissance in Italy and its European Reception: Arts - History - Literature".

February 2000
Doctorate in Classical Archaeology, dissertation topic: "Illustrations in antiquarian works of the Renaissance and Baroque. On the development of archaeology in the 16th and 17th centuries" under Professor Dr Henning Wrede at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

January 2000 - September 2001
Employee at the "Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance" at the Department of Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

December 2001 - April 2002
Research employee at the database "J. J. Winckelmann and Antiquity" of the Winckelmann Society, Stendal.

April - December 2002
Research employee at the University of Oxford for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, on the database "Greek Painted Pottery" of the Beazley Archive for the input of the German volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

March - June 2003
Academic employee of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature in the academy project "Winckelmann Edition" of the Winckelmann Society, Stendal, and contract for work and labour for the project "Trojan Horse" of the Winckelmann Museum, Stendal.

July - September 2004
Internship at the Information and Communication Centre of the Free University of Berlin.

January - March 2005
Internship at the press and public relations department of the Staatsballett Berlin, Stiftung Oper in Berlin.

May - December 2005
Voluntary work at the Treatment Centre for Torture Victims (bzfo) Berlin, press and public relations.

July - September 2006
Internship at the Head Office of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin, Press and Public Relations.

2006 - 2008
Studies at the Fundraising Academy Frankfurt/Main, degree: Fundraising Manager.

June - September 2007
Employee in the Development Office of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, and employee in the Development Office of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.

2009
Fundraising Officer of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin.

May - August 2010
Freelance employee for fundraising at the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin.

June 2011 - June 2012
Freelance employee for fundraising at the association "Umwelt - Bildung - Sozialarbeit e. V.", Berlin.

July - November 2013
Fundraiser at ASB Landesverband Berlin e. V.

February 2014 and January 2015
Herzog-Ernst Fellow, Gotha Research Centre.

November 2015 - October 2022
Research employee at the Gotha Research Centre (DFG project "Jacopo Strada").

• History of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
• History of archaeology from the 16th to 19th century
• History of the study of ancient vases in the 17th and 18th centuries
• Arts and archaeology of Egypt
• Etruscology
• History of collections

Monographs

(together with Dirk Jansen) Jacopo Strada's Magnum ac Novum Opus: A Sixteenth-Century Corpus of Ancient Numismatics. Petersberg 2022.

Antiquity in pictures. Illustrations in antiquarian works of the 16th and 17th centuries. Stendal 2003.

The vases in the collections of Count Franz I von Erbach zu Erbach. Mannheim 1998.

Essays

together with Andrea Maria Gáldy: [The Combinations of] Unrelated Obverses and Reverses of Ancient Coins in Jacopo Strada's Numismatic Works, in: Zur Antiken Numismatik (2021), vol. 3, pp. 55-76. URL: https: //doi.org/10.17879/ozean-2021-3642

Copies of ancient coins and inventions all'antica in the work of Jacopo Strada, in: Zur Antiken Numismatik (2020), vol. 2, pp. 53-83,
URL: https: //doi.org/10.17879/ozean-2020-2914

Jacopo Strada, in: INC Compte Rendu 66, 2019, 17-34

Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (1719-1793) - art agent, antiquarian and court counsellor: His diverse relationships with St. Petersburg, in: Antiquity and Classicism - Winckelmann's Legacy, in: Max Kunze and Konstantin Lappo-Danilevskij (eds.): Russia, Cyriacus. Studies on the Reception of Antiquity. Mainz/Ruhpolding 2017, vol. 10, pp. 237-251.

On the copies of the reliefs of Trajan's Column in the 16th century - two new drawings of an unknown rotulus, in: Fritz Mitthof and Günther Schörner (eds.): Columna Traiani, Tyche Sonderband Nr. 9, Vienna 2017, pp. 271-278.

A modern chalice crater in Erbach - on the Erbach wedding vase, in: Thetis. Mannheimer Beiträge zur Klassischen Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns 21 (2015), pp. 137-143.

On sixteenth-century copies of the reliefs from the Column of Trajan - Two new drawings from an unkown rotulus, in: RIHA Journal 0094 (2014) URL: https: //doi.org/10.11588/riha.2014.0.69948

Franz von Erbach and his Passion for Antiquities, in: Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy. Adriana Turpin (eds.): Collecting and the Princely Apartmanent, Newcastle upon Tyne 2011, pp. 163-170.

Cartographic representations of Ancient Rome in the 16th century, in: Winckelmann-Gesellschaft Stendal (ed.) "... die Augen ein wenig zu öffnen". The view of ancient Arts from the Renaissance to the present day. Festschrift for Max Kunze. Mainz/Ruhpolding 2011, pp. 89-92.

Jacopo Strada: Goldsmith and painter, dealer in antiquities and coins, collector and antiquarian Caesarius, in: Dietrich Hakelberg, Ingo Wiwjorra (eds.): Vorwelten und Vorzeiten. Archaeology as a mirror of historical consciousness in the early modern period, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. Wiesbaden 2010, vol. 124, pp. 295-310.

Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) and his journey to Arabia from 1761 to 1767, in: Reisen in den Orient vom 13. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, Schriften der Winckelmann-Gesellschaft 26, Stendal (2007), pp. 49-58.

Biography and bibliography of Lorenz Beger, in: Max Kunze and Henning Wrede (eds.): 300 Jahre Thesaurus Brandenburgicus, Archäologie, Antikensammlungen und antikisierende Residenzausstattungen im Barock, Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums. Munich 2006, pp. 83-96.

Numismatics and Archaeology in the 16th Century, in: Bernd Kluge Bernhard Weisser (ed.): XII. International Numismatic Congress Berlin 1997 - Akten. Berlin 2000, pp. 92-101.

Vase pictures in the Odenwald, in: Martin Flashar (ed.): 1768 - Europa à la grecque. Vases make fashion, 2nd ed. Munich 2000, pp. 61-71.

Encyclopaedia article

Étienne Dupérac, Jacobus Gronovius, Paolo Alessandro Maffei, Onofrio Panvinio, Lemmata in: Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften. Biographisches Lexikon, Der Neue Pauly Suppl. 6. ed. Peter Kuhlmann and Helmuth Schneider, Stuttgart 2012.

Review

Review of Ulrike Steiner (ed.): Die Anfänge der Archäologie in Folio und Oktav. Fremdsprachliche Antikenpublikationen und Reiseberichte in deutschen Ausgaben, Ruhpolding: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen 2005, in: Nachrichten der Winckelmann-Gesellschaft 68, Stendal (2005), pp. 36-38.

Translations

Description of a painting/picture from the Galleria Carlo Virgilio in Rome by Steffi Röttgen, in: Nachrichten der Winckelmann-Gesellschaft 68. Stendal 2005, pp. 21-22.

Classicism and Science, Suzanne Marchand, in: Antikensammlung Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (ed.): Die Griechische Klassik, Idee oder Wirklichkeit. Berlin 2002, pp. 54-61.

Ancient Greek Painting, Chryssoula Saatsoglou-Palladeli in: Antikensammlung Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (ed.): Die Griechische Klassik, Idee oder Wirklichkeit. Berlin 2002, pp. 437-438.

Vitruvius in Virginia, Malcolm Bell III in: Antikensammlung Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (ed.): Die Griechische Klassik, Idee oder Wirklichkeit. Berlin 2002, pp. 718-722.