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type: entity
title: Gerhard Weilandt
tags: [person, art-history, former-staff, professor, art-historian, digital-humanities]
related: [cdfi, university-of-greifswald, toporaz, transraz, digital-art-history, ottonian-art, social-history-of-art]
created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
sources: ["output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_kunstgeschichte_mitarbeitende_ehemalige_mitarbeitende.md", "output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_kunstgeschichte_mitarbeitende_ehemalige_mitarbeitende_pro.md"]
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# Gerhard Weilandt

**Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weilandt** is a retired Professor of Art History at the [[university-of-greifswald]] and a member of the [[cdfi]]. According to the existing version on disk, he is a former staff member of the Art History department at the [[cdfi]]. He held the chair for Art History with a focus on the Middle Ages from 2011 to 2023.

## Academic Profile
Weilandt's work is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, blending traditional art history with social sciences and cutting-edge digital technology. His primary research interests include:
- **[[ottonian-art]]**: Specialized study of the 10th and 11th-century dynasty.
- **[[social-history-of-art]]**: Analyzing art through the lens of social structures and economic conditions.
- **Sacral Topography**: The study of the spatial and functional arrangement of sacred buildings.
- **Digital Art History**: The use of 3D reconstruction and Virtual Research Environments (VRE).

## Digital Humanities Leadership
Weilandt is a pioneer in the application of [[virtual-reconstruction]] to urban spaces. He led the development of:
- **[[toporaz]]**: A georeferenced 3D model of Nuremberg's Hauptmarkt.
- **[[transraz]]**: An expansion of the TOPORAZ methodology to the entire old town of Nuremberg, integrating AI and [[citizen-science]].

## Career History
- **University of Greifswald (2011–2023):** Professor for Art History.
- **Guest/Substitute Roles:** Held positions at the University of Heidelberg, University of Kassel, and Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.
- **Early Career:** Worked on DFG research projects regarding Franconian panel painting and served as a DFG scholar at the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart.
- **Education:** PhD from the University of Bonn (1989).