Franziska Lang

Franziska Lang (born 1959) is a German classical archaeologist. She held the Chair of Classical Archaeology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt from 2005 until her retirement in 2025, and has served as the university's Vice President for Academic Careers since 2023.

Education Lang received an M.A. from the Free University of Berlin in 1987 and a doctorate from the same institution in 1991, with a dissertation on archaic settlements in Greece.

Her research focuses on settlement archaeology and urban development in ancient Greece, particularly in Acarnania and the northwestern Peloponnese. She directed the interdisciplinary Plaghia Peninsula Survey in western Acarnania, together with Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner of the German Archaeological Institute and Peter Funke of the University of Münster.

In 2023, the TU Darmstadt University Assembly elected Lang as Vice President for Academic Careers, a newly created position.

Honours In September 2025, the archaeological repository Propylaeum established the Schriftenreihe Franziska Lang, a publication series named in her honour. In December 2025, TU Darmstadt and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz hosted the international conference "Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Western Greece and Beyond" in her honour, marking her retirement.

Selected publications