Prof. Hans Rudolf Sennhauser was born in 1931 in Bad Zurzach. He went to school in Zurzach and Engelberg Abbey and enrolled with Type A in 1951. He studied from 1951 until 1964 and graduated in Zurich, Munich and Basel.
Prof. Hans Rudolf Sennhauser achieved his postdoctoral education in Basel 1967. From 1971-1996, he was Professor at the University of Zurich, teaching Venia Art History of the Middle Ages and Archeology of the Early Christian and Late Medieval Ages. He also was Professor at the ETH in Zurich from 1980-1996 for Monument Preservation – in
particular, Archeology.
Prof. Hans Rudolf Sennhauser was a federal expert for excavations and construction investigations until 1996. In this position, he was an initiator and performer of the church excavations, including: BaselMünster, St. Gallen Church and Former Monastery, Baden City Church, St. Johann Monastery in Müstair and the Disentis Inter Alia Monastery.
From the early 1960s until 2009, he worked in a private office for Archaeological excavations and surveys, which was transformed in 2009 to the Public Foundation for Research in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (FSMA).