Sebastian Sommer

Sebastian Sommer (recording from 2018)

C. Sebastian Sommer (born January 14, 1956 in Stuttgart ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and state archaeologist of Bavaria .

Sebastian Sommer studied prehistory , osteology , numismatics and ancient history from 1978 to 1985 at the University of Munich , the University of Freiburg and the University of Oxford with Professors Günter Ulbert , Hans Ulrich Nuber and Sheppard Frere . Sebastian Sommer graduated in 1983 with a Master of Philosophy from Oxford and a doctorate in 1985 in Munich.

From 1984 to 2001, Sommer was a consultant for Roman provincial archeology at the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office and, from 1995, also head of the “Specialized Excavations and Central Specialist Services” department. Here he led archaeological excavations in the Roman Ladenburg ( Lopodunum ), in Rottweil and in Oberndorf am Neckar . In 2002 he moved to the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , where he became the State Conservator and Deputy General Conservator, head of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, as head of the Department of Ground Heritage Preservation. Sommer is honorary professor of archaeological monument preservation taking into account the archeology of the Roman provinces at the University of Bamberg and is a lecturer at the Bavarian Administration School .

Sommer is a member of the Society for Archeology in Bavaria and was its board member from 2002 to 2004, he is a founding member of the German Limes Commission and its chairman since 2009, he has also been a member of the Association of State Archaeologists and its managing director since 2003. He is also a member of the Roman -Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute and full member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Commission for the Comparative Archeology of Roman Alpine and Danube Countries of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since 2006 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London .

Fonts (selection)

• The military vici in Roman Britain. Aspects of their origins, their location and layout, administration, function and end (= British Archaeological Reports. British Series. 129). BAR, Oxford 1984, ISBN 0-86054-273-4 (Revised thesis (M.Phil.), University of Oxford, 1983).
• Fort vicus and fort. Investigations into the Zugmantel in the Taunus and the fort vici in Upper Germany and Raetia. In: Find reports from Baden-Württemberg. 13, 1988, ISSN  0071-9897 , pp. 457-707, (revised and supplemented version of the dissertation Munich, 1985, online ).
• Mvnicipivm Arae Flaviae. Military and civil center in Upper Germany on the right bank of the Rhine. The Roman Rottweil in the light of new excavations. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission . 73, 1992, ISSN  0341-9312 , pp. 271-313.

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Sommer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
• Literature by and about Sebastian Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archeology of the Roman Provinces. University of Bamberg, accessed on September 18, 2017 .