Armin Becker

Armin Becker (* 1962 in Marburg ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and ancient historian .

Life

Studied history and prehistory at the universities of Marburg and Göttingen. 1991 doctorate with Karl Christ with the topic "Rome and the Chattes". 1994 and 1995 scientific employee at the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the Commission for State Archaeological Research in Hesse (Bad Nauheim excavation). 1996 traineeship at the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, 1997 to 2002 scientific employee at the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse. 2002 to 2012 research assistant at the DFG project "Waldgirmes" of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute. Between 1996 and 2009 he was entrusted with carrying out the archaeological excavations around the Roman Forum Lahnau-Waldgirmes . Together with Gabriele Rasbach , Becker is currently working on the final publication of this excavation.

Excavations and research focus

Armin Becker was involved in numerous excavations as an employee and leader:

• Hatzfeld (Eder) ( Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse , Germany): Germanic burial ground,
• Alise-Sainte-Reine ( Département Côte-d'Or , Burgundy , France ): Caesarian military installations in Alesia ,
• Zachow (Ketzin / Havel) ( Havelland district , Brandenburg , Germany): Germanic and Slavic settlement,
• Bad Nauheim ( Wetteraukreis , Hessen , Germany): Celtic saltworks,
• 1996–2009: Lahnau - Waldgirmes , ( Lahn-Dill-Kreis , Hessen, Germany): Research excavation in the Augustan city founding in the Germania Magna (4 BC to 16 AD)

Becker's research focuses on the contacts and conflicts between Romans and Teutons.

Publications (selection)

• Rome and the chat . Dissertation 1991 (= sources and research on Hessian history; 88 ) self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission. Darmstadt, Marburg 1992.
• On the logistics of the Augustan Germanic campaigns . In: Peter Kneißl , Volker Losemann (ed.): Imperium Romanum. Studies on history and reception. Festschrift for Karl Christ on his 75th birthday . Stuttgart 1998, pp. 41-50.
• The excavation of a Roman city. Waldgirmes in the Lahn-Dill district . In: Helmuth Schneider , Dorothea Rohde (Hrsg.): Hesse in antiquity. The chats from the age of the Romans to everyday culture of the present . euregioverlag. Kassel 2006, ISBN 978-3-933617-26-2 , pp. 88-104.
• The Wetterau and Lahntrasse. State of archaeological research . In: Rome on the way to Germania. Geostrategy, lines of advance and logistics . (= Soil antiquities of Westphalia; 45 ) Verlag Philipp von Zabern. Mainz 2008, pp. 37-47.
• The Romans on the Lahn. The excavations in Waldgirmes , in: Hostile neighbors. Rome and the Teutons. Edited by H. Schneider, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, 97 - 115.
• Germanicus and the chats. Waldgirmes and the campaign in 15 AD , in: "Chattenland" Research on the Iron Age in Hesse, BerKAL 10, 2008/2009, 47 - 55.
• Γερμανία in Cassius Dio , Gymnasium 119, 2012, 63-73.

Web links

• Vita on the website of the publisher Deutsches Fachbuch