Alexander Koch (historian)

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Alexander Koch (born July 5, 1966 in Bremen ; † January 17, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German prehistorian and president of the German Historical Museum Foundation in Berlin from 2011 to 2016.

Life

After attending the Stefan-George-Gymnasium in Bingen from 1977 to 1986, Koch studied Prehistory and Early History, Classical Archeology, and Medieval and Modern History in Mainz and Kiel . He received his doctorate in prehistory and early history at the University of Mainz in 1992 with his dissertation on bow brooches from the Merovingian period in western Franconia , after which he was a research assistant at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz from 1993 to 1999 .

Since 1998 he has been teaching at universities in Marburg, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Bern and Zurich as well as at what was then the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. His habilitation took place in 2003 at the University of Marburg with the thesis Tangzeitliche Kaisermausoleen in the province Shaanxi, PR China. Investigations into the building design, structure and development of imperial tombs from the 7th to 9th centuries AD using the example of Qiaoling , in 2009 he was appointed adjunct professor in Marburg.

From 2001 to 2005 he was head of the archeology department at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. From 2005 to 2011 he was director and managing director of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer.

In March 2011 he was appointed President of the German Historical Museum Foundation in Berlin to succeed Hans Ottomeyer . Under his leadership, the museum was given a new corporate design, showed important exhibitions on history and recorded growing numbers of visitors. In May 2016, Koch resigned as President of the German Historical Museum.

In 2013, Koch was awarded an honorary professorship at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2017 Koch has taught as a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and Shanghai .

Alexander Koch died after a brief serious illness in January 2019 at the age of 52.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Koch's obituary notice. In: FAZ. January 31, 2019, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Vita of Alexander Koch ( Memento from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Website of the Stefan-George-Gymnasium Bingen, pp. 26-27 (PDF).
  3. ↑ Alexander Koch new President - "A young and innovative personality" for the Historical Museum. In: Stern.de. March 16, 2011, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Alexander Koch elected as the new President of the German Historical Museum. In: Archives of Bundesregierung.de. March 15, 2011, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Andreas Kilb: Generation change in the DHM - history for everyone. In: FAZ.net. March 15, 2011, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Prof. Alexander Koch leaves the German Historical Museum. In: Publicmarketing.eu. May 13, 2016, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Alexander Koch leaves the German Historical Museum. In: Saarbruecker-Zeitung.de. June 2, 2016, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Alexander Koch's dismissal confirmed. In: Tagesspiegel.de. June 2, 2016, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Honorary Professor Alexander Koch. In: geschkult.fu-berlin.de. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  10. ^ Art management workshop series "Museum history and development" (中央 美术 学院 艺术 管理 与 教育 学院). In: Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) website. December 17, 2017, Retrieved January 29, 2019 (Chinese).
  11. ↑ Former museum director Alexander Koch has died. In: Rheinpfalz.de. January 25, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and President of the German Historical Museum Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2019
Place of death Berlin