Alexander Heising

Alexander Heising (born September 27, 1967 in Mainz ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Growing up in Mainz, he became interested in archeology at an early age and after graduating from high school he studied Provincial Roman Archeology, Early Historical Archeology and Ancient History at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg University , where he received his doctorate in 1999 with Hans Ulrich Nuber with a thesis on the Roman pottery of Mainz.

From 2000 to 2008, Heising worked as assistant to Hans-Markus von Kaenel in the Department of Archeology and History of the Roman Provinces and Ancillary Studies in Classical Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main and has been Professor of Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Freiburg since April 2009 Hans Ulrich Nuber.

Fonts

• with Gerd Rupprecht (Ed.): From the hand ax to the franc sword. Bingen. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3257-2 .
• “Sensational find in the potato field” - small late Roman fortress and early medieval graves near Trebur-Astheim. In: hessenARCHEOLOGIE. 2003, pp. 119-123. ( Summary online )
• Figlinae Mogontiacenses. The Roman pottery of Mainz. Greiner, Remshalden 2007, ISBN 978-3935383820 .
• First excavations at the early imperial camps near Trebur-Geinsheim. Groß-Gerau district. Investigation of an important Roman military site during the occupation phase. In: State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): HessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2007. Stuttgart 2008, pp. 82–85.
• Deer cult in Kelsterbach: the Roman building "On the stone wall" and the interpretation of possible cult practices in the province of Germania. Kelsterbach 2008.
• The Roman city wall of Mogontiacum - Mainz. Archaeological, historical and numismatic aspects of the 3rd and 4th centuries AD Bonn 2008.
• The chronology of the early imperial military camps near Trebur-Geinsheim. Important interim results on an important Roman military site in the Groß-Gerau district. In: State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): HessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2008. Stuttgart 2009, pp. 73–76.

Web links

• Page from Heising at the University of Freiburg