Cynthia Thomas M.A.

Building research

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Competence Center for Heritage Sciences and Technologies

cynthia.thomas@uni-bamberg.de

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Main research areas

  • Garden monument conservation of historic cemeteries
  • Gravestone mapping and typing
  • Church inventory in Nuremberg and Franconia
  • Sepulchral culture
  • Digital archiving and information systems

Career

  • Since 2024

    Research assistant, project "Stone Witnesses Digital", Competence Center for Monument Sciences and Technologies, Otto-Friedrich University

  • Since 2022

    Project management for the preservation of monuments and the recording of protected assets, Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Association St. Johannis and St. Rochus Nuremberg

  • 2021-2023

    Scientific consultant, inventory, BKM project, State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony

  • 2018-2021

    Research assistant, Art Department and Inventory, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria, Margrave Church Inventory Project Upper Franconia

  • 2009-2012

    Research assistant, DFG project "MonArch1", St. Lorenz and St. Sebald test team in Nuremberg

  • 2006-2008

    Research assistant, DBU project "Conservation of the World Court Portal at St. Sebald in Nuremberg", Otto Friedrich University

  • 2005-2007

    Master's degree in Heritage Conservation, Otto Friedrich University

  • 1998-2005

    Master's degree in Art History, Christian and Classical Archaeology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Publications (selection)

  • Thomas, C. / de Neef, W. / Heider, E.: Semester week 3D scan and radar prospection at St. Johannis cemetery, Citizens' Association St. Johannis - Schniegling - Wetzendorf e.V. Nuremberg 97 (2025): 38-40.

  • Thomas, C. / Heider, E.: Bernhard Solger – formative city planning officer and architect of the 19th century, Citizens' Association St. Johannis - Schniegling - Wetzendorf e.V. Nuremberg 95 (2024): 43-45.

  • Thomas, Cynthia: Semester week 3D scan at the Johannis cemetery, Citizens' Association St. Johannis - Schniegling - Wetzendorf e.V. Nuremberg 94 (2023): 35-39.

  • Thomas, C. / Bencker, N. / Gärtner, M. / Heider, E. / Maué, C.: Guidelines for the new production, design and care of the epitaphs on the gravestones of the St. Johannis and St. Rochus cemeteries in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 2023.

  • Thomas, C. / Link, K. / Scholz, R. / Thormann, D. / Witt, J.: The inventory of the Upper Franconian ‘margrave churches’, in: "Margrave churches" Interdisciplinary perspectives on the Protestant sacred buildings of the Principality of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, ed. Günter Dippold, Marcus Mühlnikel, Klaus Raschzok. Bayreuth: Historical Association for Upper Franconia e.V. 2022, 103-152.