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Holger Klein
Associate Professor
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art and Archaeology
Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 2000
M.A., Courtauld Institute of Art, 1994

Biography
Holger Klein was educated in Art History, Early Christian Archaeology, and German Literature at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, London, and Bonn. His research focuses on Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine art and architecture, more specifically, on the cult of relics, reliquaries, and issues of cultural and artistic exchange. His most recent archaeological survey project focused on the church of Hagia Sophia in Vize (Turkey). He currently serves as a Consulting Curator of Medieval Art for the Cleveland Museum of Art and as a guest curator for the exhibition Matter of Faith: Relics and Reliquaries of the Middle Ages scheduled to open in Cleveland in 2010..

Contact Information
931 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-3230
E-mail: hak56@columbia.edu
Office Hours: On Leave

Download Articles
The Church of Hagia Sophia in Bizye (Vize): Results of the Fieldwork Seasons 2003 and 2004, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 60 (2006), 249-270.
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Sacred Relics and Imperial Ceremonies at the Great Palace of Constantinople, F. A. Bauer (Hrsg.), Visualisierungen von Herrschaft, BYZAS 5 (2006) 79-99.
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Eastern Objects and Western Desires: Relics and Reliquaries between Byzantium and the West, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 58. (2004), pp. 283-314.
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Rcent Publications

Monographs
Byzanz, der Westen und das wahre Kreuz. Die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland, Wiesbaden 2004.
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Exhibition Catalogues
Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures. Medieval Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 2007 [German edition: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Meisterwerke von 300-1550, Munich 2007.
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Kariye Camii. The Tale of Two Magnificent Men and One Magnificent Structure, Istanbul 2007.
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Restoring Byzantium. The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration, New York 2004
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