Bernhard Overbeck

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Bernhard Overbeck (born April 1, 1942 in Berlin ; † July 8, 2018 ) was a German numismatist .

Bernhard Overbeck came to numismatics as a child, infected by his father's passion for collecting . He studied prehistory and early history, ancient history and Roman provincial archeology at the University of Munich and was there in 1969 with the prehistorian Joachim Werner with the work History of the Alpine Rhine Valley in Roman times. He received his doctorate on the basis of the archaeological evidence , which he added another volume on the found coins five years later. His habilitation in 1981 at the University of Augsburg focused on Celtic numismatics.

From 1969 to 2006 Overbeck worked at the State Mint Collection in Munich , initially as a conservator for Roman and Celtic coins, and from 1991 as its chief collection director. He also taught as an adjunct professor at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Augsburg and as a visiting professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and at the University of Texas at Austin . Overbeck was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . As a representative of the Free State of Bavaria, he was a member of the Numismatic Commission of the States in the Federal Republic of Germany . On his retirement from active service, a portrait medal was dedicated to him by the Munich medalist Erich Ott . Overbeck was among other things a member of the Bavarian Numismatic Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • Edited by Matthias Barth: List of publications by Bernhard Overbeck. In: Yearbook for Numismatics and Monetary History. Vol. 57, 2007, ISSN  0075-2711 , pp. 1-40, (until 2006).
  • Bibliography of the Bavarian history of coins and money. 1750–1964 (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Commission for Bavarian State History. Bibliographies. 7, ISSN  0515-894X ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1968.
  • History of the Alpine Rhine Valley in Roman times. Based on the archaeological evidence. Beck, Munich 1973–1982;
    • Part 1: Topography, submission of finds and historical evaluation (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Vol. 20). 1982, ISBN 3-406-00490-3 ;
    • Part 2: The coins found in the Roman period in the Alpine Rhine Valley and the surrounding area (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Vol. 21). 1973, ISBN 3-406-00491-1 .
  • with Dietrich OA Klose : Egypt in Roman times. Ancient life based on numismatic sources. With an Egyptological contribution by Sylvia Schoske . State Coin Collection, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-9800744-8-X .
  • with Jochen Garbsch : Late antiquity between paganism and Christianity (= exhibition catalogs of the Prehistoric State Collection. 17). Prehistoric State Collection, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-927806-00-5 .
  • The holy land. Ancient coins and seals from a millennium of Jewish history. State Coin Collection, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-922840-04-3 .
  • Neuses ad Pegnitz. A late Celtic coin treasure from Upper Franconia (= treatises and inventory catalogs of the State Archaeological Collection. 2). Archaeological State Collection Munich, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-927806-42-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Ehling , Dietrich OA Klose : To the death of Bernhard Overbeck . In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt . December 2018, ISSN  0937-6488 , p. 465-466 .
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2018