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Markus Ritter (born 1967 in Brunswick and grown up in Wuppertal) is a German art historian and scholar in Oriental Studies specializing on History of Islamic Art. Since 2012 he works as a tenured professor at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna in Austria.
Ritter studied at the University of Bamberg, the American University in Cairo, and the University of Teheran the disciplines and fields Islamic Art History and Archaeology, Turkology, Iranian Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, and Building Archaeology (MA 1994, Dr. phil. 2003). Subsequently, Ritter worked as a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 2010, following teaching assignments at the University of Bamberg and the Goethe University Frankfurt, he was appointed to the newly founded Assistant Professorship for History of Islamic Art at the Fine Arts Department of the University of Zurich. In 2012 he moved as founding professor to the new chair of Islamic Art History at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna.
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Abdoldjavad Falaturi (1926–1996) was a German scholar of Iranian origin.
Robert Freiherr von Heine-Geldern, known after 1919 as Robert Heine-Geldern, was a noted Austrian ethnologist, ancient historian, and archaeologist, and a grandnephew of poet Heinrich Heine.
Ernst Sellin was a German Protestant theologian.
Ingo Zechner is a philosopher and historian. He is the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (LBIDH) in Vienna.
Khirbat al-Minya, also known as Ayn Minyat Hisham (Arabic) or Horvat Minnim (Hebrew) is an Umayyad-built palace in the eastern Galilee, Israel, located about 200 meters (660 ft) west of the northern end of Lake Tiberias. It was erected as a qasr complex, with a palace, mosque, and bath built by a single patron.
Siegfried Zielinski is a German media theorist. He held the chair for Media Theory: Archaeology and Variantology of the Media at Berlin University of the Arts, he is Michel Foucault Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, and he is director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2016 until March 2018, he succeeded Peter Sloterdijk as head of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.
Joachim Werner was a German archaeologist who was especially concerned with the archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Germany. The majority of German professorships with particular focus on the field of the Early Middle Ages were in the second half of the 20th century occupied by his academic pupils.
Martin Eybl is an Austrian musicologist.
Guido Dessauer was a German physicist, pioneer in paper engineering, business executive, writer, art collector, patron of the arts, and academic. Born into a family of paper industrialists, he worked as an aerospace engineer during World War II and was an executive of the family's coloured paper factory in Aschaffenburg from 1945. He was an honorary citizen of Austria for saving 300 jobs in Styria in the 1960s. He earned a Ph.D. from the Graz University of Technology in his late 50s and became an honorary professor there. Interested in art, he collected bozzetti for 50 years and initiated the career of Horst Janssen as a lithographer.
Julius Alwin Franz Georg Andreas Ritter von Schlosser was an Austrian art historian and an important member of the Vienna School of Art History. According to Ernst Gombrich, he was "One of the most distinguished personalities of art history".
The Halbmondlager was a prisoner-of-war camp in Wünsdorf, Germany, during the First World War.
Michael Siebler is a German journalist and classical archaeologist.
Kurt Erdmann was a German art historian who specialized in Sasanian and Islamic Art. He is best known for his scientific work on the history of the Oriental rug, which he established as a subspecialty within his discipline. From 1958 to 1964, Erdmann served as the director of the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. He was one of the protagonists of the "Berlin School" of Islamic art history.
Heidemarie Koch was a German Iranologist.
Bernhard Schweitzer was a German classical archeologist.
Karina Grömer is an Austrian archaeologist known for her contribution to the study of archaeological textiles. She is the vice-head of the Department of Prehistory at the Natural History Museum Vienna in Austria.
Robert Suckale was a German art historian, medievalist and professor at the Technical University of Berlin.
Matthias Untermann is a German art historian and medieval archaeologist.
Georg Ulrich Großmann is a German art historian. He was general director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
Reinhard Stupperich is a German classical archaeologist.
