Andreas Thiel (archaeologist)

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Andreas Thiel (* 1964 in Erlangen ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

biography

education

Thiel studied Roman Provincial Archeology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg , from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Cardiff and from 1988 to 1998 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the minor subjects, he took Prehistory and Early History , Ancient History and Classical Archeology . In Munich he was in 1998 Günter Ulbert with a dissertation about the castle and the Vicus of Jagsthausen doctorate . Between 1998 and 2000 Thiel completed a scientific traineeship in archaeological monument preservation at the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg .

Professional background

From January 2000 to December 2003 he worked as a research assistant at the State Monuments Office in Baden-Württemberg. Here he began, in collaboration with Dieter Planck, with the preparation and coordination of the UNESCO membership application of the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate , Hesse , Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria for the Limes sections preserved there as part of the international world heritage project “Borders of the Roman Empire”.

In 2003 he was one of the founding members of the German Limes Commission , whose managing director he became in January 2004. In this context, he remained the responsible contact person for the World Heritage project until 2008, when he resigned from his position as managing director, and as an application coordinator he campaigned intensively for the Limes to be included in the World Heritage List in 2005. In 2007 he started teaching at the archaeological institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

In April 2008 he finished his work at the German Limes Commission and in May of the same year accepted a call to head conservator at the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg at the Stuttgart regional council in Esslingen .

Memberships

Thiel has been a member of the German National Committee of ICOMOS since 2006 and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2007 .

family

Thiel is married and lives in Esslingen.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Roman Jagsthausen. Fort, vicus and settlement areas in the surrounding area . (=  Material booklets on archeology in Baden-Württemberg 72), Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-2001-8 (= dissertation).
  • A newly found renovation inscription from the second Roman military bath in Jagsthausen, Heilbronn district. In: Find reports from Baden-Württemberg , Volume 20, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 725-735.
  • The Jagsthausen fort bath - an example of archaeological monument preservation in the 1990s. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. News sheet of the Landesdenkmalamtes 25, (1996), No. 4, pp. 244-250.
  • Further archaeological discoveries in the fort vicus of Jagsthausen, Heilbronn district. In: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg , 1997 (1998), pp. 109–111.
  • Paths on the Limes. 55 excursions to Roman times . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 380621946X
  • Jagsthausen. Cohort fort, civil settlement, burial ground. In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1555-3 , pp. 138ff.
  • Complex strip houses on the outskirts. New insights into the planning and expansion of the Jagsthausen fort vicus . In: Peter Henrich (Ed.): The Limes from the Lower Rhine to the Danube. 6th colloquium of the German Limes Commission . (=  Contributions to the Limes 6 World Heritage Site ) Theiss, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2466-5 , pp. 89-97.
  • The Romans in Germany . Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3806220670
  • with Dieter Planck: The Limes Lexicon. Rome's borders from A to Z. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 3406568165
  • with Marcus Reuter: The Limes. In the footsteps of the Romans . Theiss, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 9783806227604

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personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH gain