Axel Gering

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Axel Gering (born October 15, 1968 in Munich ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from the Munich Wilhelmsgymnasium in 1987, Gering began studying Classical Archeology , Ancient History and Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Munich in the same year . In 1994 he received a Magister Artium degree there . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1999 . In the following years he continued his research, excavation and teaching activities and in 2005 completed his habilitation thesis at the HU Berlin with Henning Wrede and Klaus Freyberger . From 2003 to 2007 he had a teaching position as a research assistant . In 2007 he received his habilitation and was appointed private lecturer. Today he works as a "special professor " at the Winckelmann Institute at HU Berlin.

Since his dissertation, the ancient Ostia , where he heads the "Ostio Forum Project", has been his main research area.

He has been a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich since his studies .

Publications (selection)

  • Ostia: living in the insula . Dissertation University of Munich 2002 (only published as micorfiche).
  • The Case a Giardino as an unfulfilled architect's dream. Planning and changed use of a luxury residential complex in ancient Ostia . In: Römische Mitteilungen 109, 2002, pp. 109–140.
  • Squares and roadblocks on promenades. On the functional change in Ostia in late antiquity . In: Römische Mitteilungen 111, 2004, pp. 299–381.
  • Ostia's forgotten late antiquity. An urban interpretation for coping with decay . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-95490-210-1 (habilitation thesis).
  • Review of: S. Priester, Ad summas tegulas: Investigations into multi-storey building blocks with residential units and insulae in imperial Rome. In:?, 2006
  • Enjoyment culture and ghetto formation: is Ostia representative of late antique metropolises? , in: Rudolf HW Stichel , Nadine Burkhardt (Ed.): The ancient city in transition . 2008
  • Review of: S. Keay - M. Millett - L. Paroli - K. Strutt (eds.): Portus. An Archeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome. In:?, 2008

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ostia Forum Project - by Prof. Dr. Axel Gering. Retrieved May 28, 2020 . ; Humboldt University: Ostia Antica excavation project. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpsliste 1996, 104, 1953.
personal data
SURNAME Low, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich