Bernhard Cämmerer

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Bernhard Cämmerer (born October 18, 1934 in Bernburg ) is a German archaeologist .

Cämmerer studied from 1955 to 1958 at the University of Berlin Classics and Ancient History, from 1958 he studied classical archeology at the University of Freiburg , from 1959 to 1961 at the University of Basel and then again in Freiburg, where he in 1965 at Walter Herwig Schuchardt with a thesis on the eikones of Philostratus was awarded a doctorate.

In 1963 he began as a volunteer in the antiquities department of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe , where he became a curator and later chief curator of the provincial Roman department.

In 1974, Cämmerer led the excavation of the Mithraeum in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl on behalf of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office .

He was best known for the "Roman fashion show" that he often held.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the assessment of the credibility of the description of the paintings of the elder Philostratus . Dissertation Freiburg 1965.
  • with Philipp Filtzinger , Dieter Planck (eds.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg. Theiss, Stuttgart 1976. 3rd edition 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0133-1 (therein pp. 165-200: Roman religion ).