Jan Bemmann

Jan Bemmann (born November 3, 1961 in Bremen ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist and director of the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology of the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , a department of the Institute for Art History and Archeology.

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After studying prehistory and early history (major), medieval and modern history and soil science (minor subjects) at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (1981-1989), the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität In Munich , Bemmann received a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

With his philosophical dissertation on an "investigation into the younger complex of the imperial sacrificial site of Nydam in Denmark" he received his doctorate in February 1989 at the University of Kiel and then received a travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin in 1989/90 . In 1989 he carried out a survey , prospecting and excavation in Eiderstedt (Schleswig-Holstein) on behalf of the West Coast Research and Technology Center, Coastal Archeology Department in Büsum . This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation from 1990 to 1993 . In 1994, Bemmann became assistant and then senior assistant in the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Here he received his habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on "Central Germany in the younger Roman Empire and the Migration Period - a study based on body burials ". In summer 2004 he received a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna and since the winter semester 2004/2005 he has been professor for prehistoric archeology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Bemmann curated the special exhibition Steppe Warriors. Riding nomads of the 7th-14th centuries Century from Mongolia , which was shown in 2012 in the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn .

Full member of the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) and member of the Commission for Archeology of Non-European Cultures .

the cultures of the Roman Empire and the Migration Period in Northern, Central and Southeastern Europe
the archeology of the Eastern Merovingian series of cemeteries and the early Slavs
Offerings and places of sacrifice in Central and Northern Europe
Weapons and armaments in prehistoric times
Cultural change in Central Germany from Drusus to Bonifatius
Cultural changes in the Crimea in the early Middle Ages

Geoarchaeology in the steppe. For the reconstruction of cultural landscapes in the Orkhon Valley (Central Mongolia)

(with Henny Piezonka)

Karakorum (Mongolia) (with Ernst Pohl)
Mangup , Crimea, Ukraine
Central Germany during the 3rd – 6th Century
Walberberg (with Ulrike Müssemeier)
History of the Bonn Institute for Prehistory and Early History (1937–1955)
Archaeological / anthropological analysis of the Lüneburg burial ground - Oedeme
Early Slavs in Central Europe (project of the Gerda Henkel Foundation Düsseldorf)

with Güde Bemmann: The sacrificial place of Nydam. The finds from the older excavations. Nydam-I and Nydam-II . 2 volumes. Wacholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-01827-9 (review by Bitner-Wroblewska in Germania . Vol. 79, 2, 2001, pp. 481-487).
Liebersee. A multicultural burial place on the Saxon Elbe.
- with Wolfgang Ender: Volume 1 (= publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory. 28). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1444-1 ;
- Volume 3 (= publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory. 39). State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-910008-53-4 ;
- with Esther M. Wesely-Arents: Volume 5. (= publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory. 48). State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-910008-67-4 .

with Morten Hegewisch: Günter Behm : Culture and tribal history of the Elbe-Havel Germans of the 3rd – 5th centuries Century. Sacrifice and magic in the Germanic village of the Roman Empire. (New excavation results) = Studies on the history and culture of the Teutons (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. 38). Beier and Beran, Langenweissbach 2004, ISBN 3-937517-09-X (At the same time: Berlin, university, dissertation, 1938 and Jena, university, habilitation paper, 1949).
with Michal Parczewski: Early Slavs in Central Europe. Writings by Kazimierz Godłowski (= studies on settlement history and archeology of the Baltic Sea regions . 6). Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-01395-1 .

Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 , bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists, 22nd edition, Volume I: A – G, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , p. 240.

personal data
SURNAME	Bemmann, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd November 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen