Helmut Schwaiger
Helmut Schwaiger
- Coordinator | Digital Archaeology and Classics
- Digital Archaeology and Classics
- +43 1 51581-4126
- helmut.schwaiger(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Degree in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from the universities of Vienna and Graz. Then employed at the Department for Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture of the OeAW, since 2011, scientific employee at the OeAI. In addition to the participation at excavations in Austria and Italy also responsible for the fieldwork for a research project on imperial and late antique domestic space in Aswan (EGY). Since 2002, active in Turkey as part of various archaeological missions (Limyra, Andriake, Antioch in Pisidia, Dülük Baba Tepesi/Doliche) with the main emphasis on Ephesos. Since 2012, responsible for the research project »A late antique-medieval city quarter to the south of the Church of Mary«. Since 2013, coordinator of the excavations in Ephesos. From 2017 to 2020 in charge of the RG »Digging Digital«. Since 2021, together with Christian Gugl, coordinator of the research infrastructure unit »Digital Archaeology and Classics (DAC)«.
Research Projects
Research interests
- Roman archaeology
- Late antique-early Byzantine archaeology
- Study of domestic space
Publications
- Intestinal parasites from public and private latrines and the harbour canal in Roman Period Ephesus, Turkey (1st c. BCE to 6th c. CE). / Ledger, Marissa; Stock, Friederike; Schwaiger, Helmut et al.
In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 21, No. 2018, 29.07.2018, p. 289-297.
- A Late Antique City Quarter in Ephesos: Social Differentiation and Functional Heterogeneity. / Schwaiger, Helmut; Scheifinger, Jasmin; Sahm, Katharina et al.
Shops, Workshops and Urban Economic History in the Roman World: Panel 8.3. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020. p. 47-61 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018, Vol. 42). - Die Grabungen des Jahres 2005 in der Süd- und Nordhalle der Kuretenstraße. Ausgewählte Befunde und Funde. / Iro, Daniel; Schwaiger, Helmut; Waldner, Alice et al.
Neue Forschungen zur Kuretenstraße von Ephesos. Akten des Symposiums für Hilke Thür vom 13. Dezember 2006 an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wien, 2009. p. 53-87 (Archäologische Forschungen).
- Hoffnung auf Rettung: Ein neugefundener Weihealtar für Artemis Soteira aus Ephesos. / Ladstätter, Sabine; Taeuber, Hans; Schwaiger, Helmut et al.
Homo universalis. Zwischen Universität und Universalität. In memoriam Heribert Aigner. Bristol: Peter Lang, 2021. p. 219-232 (Grazer Altertumskundliche Studien 13). - Daylight scattering by late antique window glass from Ephesus. / Grobe, Lars; Noback, Andreas; Lang, Franziska et al.
Monumental Computations: Digital archaeology of large urban and underground infrastructures. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2021. p. 317-334 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna, Band 24).