Bjorn-Uwe Abels

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Björn-Uwe Abels (born July 20, 1941 in Berlin ) is a prehistoric archaeologist and was the main conservator of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments at the Memmelsdorf office .

Employment

After studying prehistory in Tübingen , which he completed with a doctorate in 1970, Abels began working in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in the Würzburg branch in 1971. In 1976 he moved to Schloss Seehof in Memmelsdorf and initially headed the branch office there and, from 2002, the new Section IV B Upper Franconia / Lower Franconia for the preservation of historical monuments . His research focused on the late Bronze Age Heunischenburg , the Ehrenbürg and the Celtic oppidum on the Staffelberg . In addition, he took on a variety of public representation for the interests of archeology , such. B. Various lectures in front of foundations , exhibitions , historical associations and at the day of the open monument . In July 2006 he retired.

As an honorary professor at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Department of Archaeological Sciences), he held lectures there on his special fields between 1978/79 and 2005/06 , such as: B. for the early La Tène period settlement of northeast Bavaria .

Björn-Uwe Abels is a member of the German Archaeological Institute and lives in Bamberg .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The prehistoric and protohistoric land monuments of Lower Franconia. (= Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory. Row B: Inventories of the site monuments. 6). 2 volumes. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X .
  • Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia (= guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria. Franconia. 2). Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0373-3 .
  • with Walter Sage and Christian Züchner: Upper Franconia in prehistoric times. Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1986, ISBN 3-87052-991-1 .
  • New excavations in the fortification area of ​​the Staffelberg, City of Staffelstein, Upper Franconia. In: Report of the Bavarian soil monument preservation. 28/29, 1987/1988, ZDB -ID 356203-7 , pp. 143-180.
  • The Heunischenburg near Kronach. A fortification from the late Urnfield period (= Regensburg contributions to prehistoric archeology. 9). Universitäts-Verlag et al., Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-930480-28-X .
  • Relay stone. In: Sabine Rieckhoff , Jörg Biel (ed.): The Celts in Germany. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1367-4 , pp. 466-469.
  • The Celts in Upper Franconia. In: Archive for history in Upper Franconia. 73, 1993, ISSN  0066-6335 , pp. 55-65.
  • Historical documents from minting. In: Rajasthan. Land of kings. Kunstverlag Gotha, Wechmar 1995, ISBN 3-931182-04-5 , pp. 37-39.
  • The honorary citizen near Forchheim: The spring La Tène central settlement of northeast Bavaria. In: Dirk Krauße , Denise Beilharz (ed.): “Prince's seats” and central locations of the early Celts. Final colloquium of the DFG priority program 1171 in Stuttgart, 12. – 15. October 2009 (= research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg. 120). Part 1. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2433-7 , pp. 101-128.
  • The urnfield and spring La Tène central settlement Ehrenbürg near Forchheim. In: Report of the Bavarian soil monument preservation. 53, 2012, pp. 9-59.
  • A contribution to the development of the Indian thrusting dagger, called Qatar or Jamdhar. In: weapons and costume studies. Journal of the Society for Historical Arms and Costume Studies. Vol. 54, Issue 2, 2012, ISSN  0042-9945 , pp. 145-160.
  • The kukri of the Gurkhas from Nepal. In: weapons and costume studies. Journal of the Society for Historical Arms and Costume Studies. Vol. 55, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 133–152.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Hain, Ruprecht Konrad, Dieter Schmudlach, Peter Ziegler: The Lord of the Underworld is retiring.
  2. ^ Bavarian State Gazette , December 7, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Abels, Bjorn-Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and chief curator of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin