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Christof Flügel is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and senior curator at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

Flügel was born as the son of the Austrian palaeontologist and geologist Erik Flügel (1934-2004) and the mineralogist Erentraud Flügel-Kahler . From 1986 to 1988 he studied Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Vienna , where he passed the intermediate examination. He then moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and studied Roman Provincial Archeology, Classical Archeology and Ancient History from 1988 to 1996. After completing his Magister Artium , he received his doctorate under Günter Ulbert . He completed his dissertation on Roman ceramics from Auerberg, printed in 1999 , in the 1996 summer semester.

In 1997 he worked as a research assistant at the Prehistoric State Collection (since 2000: State Archaeological Collection ) in Munich . He held this position until 2000. During this time he worked on the scientific conception of the Bavarian state exhibition "Romans between the Alps and the North Sea", which was shown in the Rosenheim engine shed . In 2000 he was appointed as a scientific adviser to the conservator, later senior curator, and worked at the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. From 2009 to 2012, Flügel and the Roman provincial archaeologist Heimo Dolenz from the State Museum of Carinthia were excavation directors in Carthage, Tunisia, doing research on behalf of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in what is now the "Quartier Didon", which was declared another archaeological park in the city in 2017.

Since February 2018, Flügel has been the main curator and head of department for the non-state archaeological and natural science museums in Bavaria. One of the main tasks is to convey the world heritage thematic complex “Limits of the Roman Empire - Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes”. He also lectures at the Bavarian Museum Academy, founded in 2011, and is a lecturer in the archeology of the Roman provinces at the University of Bamberg .

In May 2015, Flügel was elected a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts (selection)

• A border for Rome. The Middle Franconian Limes in the Empire . In: Edgar Weinlich Ed .: The Limes as the ancient border of the Roman Empire. Boundaries over the centuries. (=  History and Culture in Middle Franconia 3), Ergon, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95650-058-9 , pp. 49-62.
• with Heimo Dolenz and Martin Luik : Subsequent excavations in the temple district of Isis Noreia near Hohenstein in the Glantal . In: Carinthia I, 195, 2005, pp. 55-71.
• with Christian Gug: The small finds from the Virunenser Amphitheater . In: Christian Gugl, Renate Jernej: Virunum. The Roman amphitheater. The excavations 1998-2001 . Wieser, Klagenfurt 2004, ISBN 3851294297 , pp. 343-394.
• with Ludwig Wamser and Bernward Ziegaus: Romans between the Alps and the North Sea. Civilizational legacy of a European military power . Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2615-7
• The Roman bronze vessels from Kempten-Cambodunum . In: Mathilde Schleiermacher, Christof Flügel: Brooches and bronze vessels from Kempten-Cambodunum . (=  Cambodunum research 5, material booklets for Bavarian prehistory A 63), Laßleben, Kallmünz 1993, ISBN 378475063X , pp. 53-114.
• The Auerberg III. Topography, Roman pottery . (=  Munich Contributions to Pre- and Early History 47). Publication of the Commission for the Study of the Late Roman Raetia Bavarian Academy of Sciences Munich, Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3406107516 (dissertation)

Web links

• Lecturer at the University of Bamberg , accessed on December 29, 2017
• List of publications at www.bayerische-bibliographie.de