Andreas Boos

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Andreas Boos (born September 2, 1959 in Tübingen ) is a German archaeologist and historian.

Life

Andreas Boos was born as the son of the doctor Otto Boos and his wife Ilse, geb. Meinel, born. After attending primary school, he attended the mathematical and natural science Goethe-Gymnasium in Regensburg , where he graduated from high school in 1978. He then studied prehistory and history at the University of Regensburg . 1979–1981 he was involved in various excavations in Regensburg and the southern Upper Palatinate, from 1983 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Regensburg, and in 1986 he submitted his master's thesis on "Investigations into Oppidaforschung". In 1987 he was employed at the Regensburg City Archives as part of a project to research the medieval infrastructure of Eastern Bavaria and at the Office for Archives and Monument Preservation of the City of Regensburg. 1987–1989 he received a doctoral scholarship from the Graduate Fund of the Free State of Bavaria. In 1988 he led an emergency excavation in Kelheim . 1989–1992 he studied art history, classical archeology and folklore at the University of Regensburg. In 1992, as a research assistant for the community of Flossenbürg , he took over the preservation of the Flossenbürg Castle . In 1993 he was awarded the dissertation on "The early and high medieval castles in the south of Weiden" to Dr. phil. PhD in the subjects of Prehistory, Ancient History and Medieval History; the work is considered the standard work in this subject area.

Since 1994 he has been head of the archeology department and deputy head of the Historical Museum of Regensburg . In addition to his activities in the context of the museum, he is a member of the committee of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg .

research

He directed u. a. the excavations of Ehrenfels Castle and in Großprüfening near the "Roman Park"; A branch of the Historical Museum was also set up here.

Andreas Boos is involved in a research project approved in 2013 by the VW Foundation for several museums ( State Collection for Anthropology and Paleoanatomy , Archaeological State Collection Munich - Museum for Prehistory and Protohistory, Genetics Institute of University College London , Archaeological State Collection Munich, Institute for Anthropology of the University of Mainz as well as the archeology department of the Historisches Museum Regensburg); "Deformed skulls - traces of female mobility and multicultural communities at the beginning of Europe" are examined here. An excavation and exhibition project on the early Slavic settlement of the Regensburg area, which Andreas Boos designed together with the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen , Hans Losert from the University of Bamberg and the ArchaeoCentrum Bayern-Böhmen , met with great interest . He is also involved in the excavation work in the Jewish quarter of Regensburg.

Publications

Monographs
  • The early and high medieval castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate. Investigations into the topography and typology, history and importance of fortified aristocratic and ministerial residences as well as the early historical ramparts of the Regensburg area. University of Regensburg, dissertation 1992.
  • The Flossenbürg ruins. Resurrection of a castle from the high and late Middle Ages. Flossenbürg municipality 1993.
  • Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate. The early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area. Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998. ISBN 3-930480-03-4 .
  • From the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: 10 years of area excavation in Regensburg-Burgweinting. Accompanying volume to an exhibition in the historical museum of the city, opened on December 17, 2004. Museums of the city of Regensburg, Regensburg 2004 Regensburg ISBN 3933474310 .
  • with Lutz-Michael Dallmeier, Bernhard Overbeck: The Roman treasure of Regensburg-Kumpfmühl. Museums of the City of Regensburg, Regensburg 2000, ISBN 3925753869 .
  • Castles and palaces in and around Regensburg. Contributions to the 27th Regensburg Autumn Symposium for Art, History and Monument Preservation from November 23rd to 25th, 2012. Verlag Dr. Peter Morsbach, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 9783937527659 .
  • 750 years of Ehrenfels Castle in Beratzhausen. Kallmünz, Laßleben 2012. ISBN 9783784712130 .
  • with Lutz-Michael Dallmeier: Castra Regina: The Roman legion camp of Regensburg. City of Regensburg, Kulturreferat 2018. ISBN 9783943222432 .
Contributions to books
  • From the excavation at Auergasse 10 to the exhibition “Wirtshauskultur” and comments on the “Great Latrine” and its finds. In: Wirtshauskultur: archeology, history and legacy of an old Regensburg tavern; Accompanying volume to a special exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Regensburg from June 28 to September 15, 2002. Museums of the City of Regensburg, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3935052189 .
  • The Upper Palatinate count castles Flossenbürg and Leuchtenberg . In: The Upper Palatinate - Land of the Count Palatinate in the middle of Europe: Festschrift for the 35th Bavarian Nordgau Day in Vohenstrauß. Regensburg 2004, pp. 153-162.
  • Freudenberg: Ringwall on the Johannisberg . In Amberg and the land at Naab and Vils. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3806218773 , pp. 84-87.
  • Prehistoric burials in the Regensburg city area . In: Andreas Boos, Wolfgang Eichinger, Andreas Jobst u. a .: Death in Regensburg: Art and culture around dying and death. Contributions to the 23rd Regensburg Autumn Symposium for Art, History and Monument Preservation from November 21 to 23, 2008. Verlag Dr. Morsbach, Regensburg 2010, ISB 9783937527307, pp. 9-18.
  • For the early Slavic settlement of the Upper Palatinate . In: Peter Herz, Peter Schmid, Oliver Stoll (eds.), Continuities and discontinuities: from the Celtic era to the Bavarian wars. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783865962744 , pp. 123–148 .:
  • with Karl Schmotz: fortifications of the early and older Middle Ages in the eastern Bavarian Danube region . In: Ludwig Husty, Karl Schmotz (Ed.): Lectures of the 30th Lower Bavarian Archaeological Day . Publishing house Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89646-241-1 , pp. 147-226.
Publications on the web
Varia
  • Roman Regensburg. Interactive CD-ROM on the Roman Age section in the Regensburg Historical Museum. Historical Museum Regensburg, Regensburg 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Boos, 1992, Appendix: CV .
  2. ^ Elisabeth Vogl: Book review Andreas Boos , accessed on December 13, 2019.
  3. ^ Organs of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , accessed on December 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Susanne Wiedamann: The treasure chest from Roman times. The remains of what is believed to be the oldest brewery north of the Alps can be viewed inChecking . Mittelbayerische Zeitung of September 19, 2014, accessed on December 13, 2019.
  5. ^ Volkswagen Foundation, approval of April 2, 2013
  6. ↑ Deformed skulls - traces of female mobility and multicultural communities at the beginning of Europe? Volkswagen Foundation, accessed December 15, 2019.
  7. ↑ Hans Kratzer: Puzzling skull finds in Bavaria: Medieval multi-cultural. Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 11, 2013, accessed on December 15, 2019.
  8. ↑ Bernd Trautmann; Brigitte Haas-Gebhard; Andreas Boos; Andreas Rott; Melanie Gross; Joachim Burger; Michaela Harbeck: A reevaluation of artificially deformed skulls from the early Middle Ages from Bavaria . In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt , Vol. 47 (2017), pp. 263–282.
  9. ↑ "Slavs in Eastern Bavaria and Western Bohemia" . Onetz , March 27, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019
  10. ↑ Processing of the excavations starts. More than 20 years have passed since the remains of the Jewish quarter under Neupfarrplatz in Regensburg were found. Mittelbayerische Zeitung of February 9, 2019, accessed on December 13, 2019.
  11. ^ Karlheinz Dietz: Book Review , accessed on December 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Boos, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen