Barbara Scholkmann

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Barbara Scholkmann (* 1941 in Heidenheim ) was Professor of Medieval Archeology at the University of Tübingen until her retirement in 2007 .

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After training as a primary and secondary school teacher, Barbara Scholkmann studied history, German studies, politics and prehistory in Tübingen, Munich and Würzburg. After studying to be a teacher, she worked from 1969 to 1973 in various archaeological monument conservation projects as a research assistant at the then State Office for Monument Conservation in Stuttgart, Department of Archeology of the Middle Ages under Günter Fehring in Baden-Württemberg. Among other things, she was involved in the excavations of the Church of St. Dionysius in Esslingen , the Remigius Church in Nagold and a city center excavation in Sindelfingen . In 1972 she did her doctorate with Otto Meyer in Würzburg. After several years as a freelance archaeologist (birth of two children), she worked as a scientific consultant at the (then) Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Department of Medieval Archeology, until she was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen in 1994. Since the winter semester 1979/80 she had lectureships in Tübingen, Lund, Zurich and Arhus and since 1988 an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen.

She was able to anchor the archeology of the Middle Ages in the Tübingen Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Middle Ages. Attempts to cancel the subject at the University of Tübingen after her retirement were averted. In addition to study opportunities in Bamberg and Halle - apart from individual courses in the context of prehistoric archeology also at other universities such as Freiburg - Tübingen is one of the few universities where archeology of the Middle Ages is represented with its own curriculum. The spatial spectrum of the final theses produced by her accordingly covered almost the entire German area (and in individual cases beyond) and included topics from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period. With excavation projects in southwest Germany, but also in Westphalia, it ensured the practical training of the students, while seminars often focused on theoretical concepts. With the Tübingen research on historical archeology and the teaching and working materials on archeology of the Middle Ages and modern times , she has anchored two series at the institute.

Barbara Scholkmann is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . In 1999 she received the Research Award from the Anniversary Foundation of the Swedish Reichsbank. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University. From 2001 to 2006 she was also Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching at the University of Tübingen. Barbara Scholkmann was a founding member of the working group for archeology of the Middle Ages established in 1975 at the German associations for antiquity research and, as chairwoman, since 1990, has been significantly involved in the organizational and content restructuring of the association in 2001, to which she was a member of the board until 2003. In 1997 she was commissioned by the permanent committee of the European specialist conference Medieval Europe with the preparation and implementation of the third conference Medieval Europe, which took place in 2002 in Basel. She has supervised numerous master's theses and doctorates and worked as a reviewer for German and foreign research funding institutions.

Barbara Scholkmann Young Talent Award for Historical Archeology

In 2017 she donated the “Barbara Scholkmann Young Talent Award for Historical Archeology”. It honors outstanding and innovative work by young academics in the field of archeology of the Middle Ages and modern times. that have initiated noticeable progress in research. The prize is announced every two years and was awarded to Matthias Friedrich, MA for the first time in 2018. In 2020 the prize was shared and Fabian Brenker and Roland Filzwieser were awarded.

Research priorities

  • Archeology of the Christian cult: early churches, collegiate churches, burial topography
  • Glass production
  • Material culture: ceramics, wood, glass
  • Urban archeology: Sindelfingen, Tübingen
  • Theory and method of archeology of the Middle Ages
  • Regional history of southwest Germany

Scholkmann's work on medieval material culture is important, but above all her contribution to the theoretical conception of the subject, the most recent definition of which goes back to Scholkmann. She also actively included modern archeology in her understanding of the subject with a research project in Central America ( Panama City ) and identified interdisciplinarity as a hallmark of the subject.

Research projects (selection)

  • The Crusader City Apollonia / Arsuv in Israel: Structure-Culture-Adaptation-City-Surrounding Relations (2012-2017)
  • The Spanish colonial city of Panamá la Vieja (DFG, 2002–2009 with Rainer Schreg , A. Zeischka)
  • House and Environment (DFG, with Sönke Lorenz , M. Rösch)

Publications (selection)

  • Sindelfingen - Upper suburb. A settlement from the high and late Middle Ages. In: Forsch. U. Ber. Arch. Middle Ages Bad.-Württ. 3, Tübingen 1978.- Dissertation
  • Baldenstein Castle. The "Old Castle" near Gammertingen. Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-4038-5 .
  • with Birgit Tuchen: The Martinskirche in Pfullingen - Archeology and Building History (material booklets for archeology in Baden-Württemberg; 53), Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8062-1479-6
  • with GP Fehring, P. Anstett: The city church of St. Dionysius in Esslingen. In: Forsch. U. Ber. Arch. Middle Ages Bad.-Württ. 13, Stuttgart 1995.
  • The archaeological artifacts. Questions, results and future tasks of research. In: GP Fehring, W. Sage (Ed.): Medieval archeology in Central Europe. On the change in tasks and objectives. 9, Bonn 1995, pp. 63-74.
  • Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times in Central Europe: Theories - Methods - Fields of Work. Basic considerations on the location of the subject. In: Zeitschr. Arch. Middle Ages. 25/26, 1997/98, pp. 3-6.
  • Norm formation and norm change in the burial practice of the Middle Ages - The burials in churches. In: D. Ruhe, K.-H. Spieß (Ed.): Processes of norm formation and norm change in medieval Europe. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07503-8 , pp. 93-117.
  • with S. Lorenz (Ed.): Swabia 1000 years ago. Filderstadt 2002, ISBN 3-935129-03-3 .
  • Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Basic knowledge, ed. by B. Scholkmann, H. Kenzler, R. Schreg, WBG, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-26811-5 .
  • The Middle Ages in the focus of archeology. Archeology in Germany . Special edition Plus 2009 (Darmstadt 2009).
  • with S. Frommer, C. Vossler u. a. (Ed.), Between Tradition and Change. Archeology of the 15th and 16th centuries. Tübingen research hist. Arch. 3 (Büchenbach 2009).
  • with Rainer Schreg , A. Zeischka-Kenzler (Eds.), A Step to a global world. Historical archeology in Panamà. BAR International series 2742 (Oxford 2015).

Festschrift

  • Jochem Pfrommer, Rainer Schreg (Hrsg.): Between the times. Archaeological contributions to the history of the Middle Ages in Central Europe. Festschrift Barbara Scholkmann. Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2001, ISBN 3-89646-395-0 (= International Archeology - Studia honoraria. 15). With list of documents up to 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/framstallning--redogorelse/styrelsen-for-stiftelsen-riksbankens_GN04RJ1/html
  2. ↑ https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereich/altertums-und-kunstwissenschaften/ur-und-fruehgeschichte-und-archaeologie-des-mittelalters/abteilungen/mittelalter/mitarbeiter/nach-funktion/scholkmann -barbara-prof-dr-dr-hc / vita /
  3. ↑ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/mitt-dgamn/article/view/20672/14455
  4. ↑ https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/archiv-attempto-online/archivfullview-attempto/article/neue-auszeichnung-matthias-friedrich-erhaelt-barbara-scholkmann-foerderpreis -for-historical-archaeol.html
  5. ↑ Barbara Scholkmann Prize supports young archaeologists. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholkmann, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for archeology
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim