Background
He is the son of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and grandson of the archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler.
anthropologist archaeologist numismatist art historian university professor
He is the son of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and grandson of the archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 at Heidelberg University with a thesis on ancient Greek numismatics supervised by Herbert A. Cahn.
His work was celebrated by a Festschrift in 2009. He worked from 1976-1981 at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. In 1991, he was habilitated at the University of Saarbrucken and since 1994.
From 1993 to 2003 he carried out excavations and surveys in Georgia, and since 2002 he has been involved in the Daisen Didyma project
German Archaeological Institute]
He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens.