Ballot Archive

04 Feb 2016

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Ulrich Schädler

Academic degrees, honours etc.

Dr. phil., Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt Habilitation (Privat-Dozent), Fribourg University (CH)

Profession or occupation

Archaeologist and museum curator

Grounds for election

Dr. Schädler is the director of the Musée Suisse du Jeu and a Reader in Classical Archaeology at the University of Fribourg (CH). He has worked in several German museums and on fieldwork projects in Germany, Italy and Turkey. His international reputation is founded primarily on his rigorous and innovative approach to the understanding of ancient board games. ‘Archäologie, Theater und Sport im Frankfurter Waldstadion’, in Stadion 23, 1997, 16-59; Contributions to La Villa dei Quintili. Fonti scritte e fonti figurate, a cura di Andreina Ricci, Roma 1998, 29-79, 81-147-187; ‘Ikonologie und Archäologie’, in Antike und Abendland 39, 1993, 162-187; ‘The doctor’s game – new light on the history of ancient board games’, in P Crummy (ed.) Stanway: An Elite burial site at Camulodunum, Britannia Monograph Series No 24, 2007, 359-375; Alfons X. „der Weise“, Das Buch der Spiele. Übersetzt und kommentiert von Ulrich Schädler und Ricardo Calvo, Ludographie Band I, Lit-Verlag Münster/Wien 2009

Signatories

The following Fellows have signed this Blue Paper