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type: source
title: "CDFI Art History: Profile of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weilandt"
tags: [art-history, digital-humanities, biography]
related: [gerhard-weilandt, toporaz, transraz, digital-art-history]
created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
sources: ["output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_kunstgeschichte_mitarbeitende_ehemalige_mitarbeitende_pro.md"]
---

# CDFI Art History: Profile of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weilandt

This source provides a detailed professional profile of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weilandt, a retired professor of Art History at the University of Greifswald. It outlines his research focuses, academic career, and his leadership in pioneering digital art history projects.

## Key Research Areas
- **Ottonian Art:** Specialized research into the art of the Ottonian dynasty.
- **Social History of Art:** Applying social, economic, and power structure analysis to art history.
- **Sacral Topography:** Studying the spatial arrangement and function of sacred sites.
- **Digital Art History:** Implementing 3D modeling and virtual research environments (VRE) for historical analysis.
- **Regional Focus:** Art history of the Baltic Sea region and the late Gothic artist workshops.

## Major Projects
The source details two significant virtual research environments developed for the city of Nuremberg:
- **TOPORAZ:** A project (2015–2018) that created scientifically validated 3D models of the Nuremberg Hauptmarkt across four time periods, linking them to a database of historical sources.
- **TRANSRAZ:** A follow-up project (starting 2020) expanding the scope to the entire old town of Nuremberg (~3,000 houses) using Big Data, AI for source processing, and "Citizen Science" platforms.

## Academic Career
- **University of Greifswald:** Professor for Art History (focus on Middle Ages) from 2011 to 2023.
- **Other Appointments:** Substitute professorships at the University of Heidelberg and University of Kassel; guest professorships at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.
- **Education:** PhD from the University of Bonn (1989); studied history and art history in Bonn and Munich.
