Dennis Graen

Dennis Graen (born July 19, 1974 in Hildesheim ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Dennis Graen passed his Abitur at the Episcopal Gymnasium Josephinum in Hildesheim in 1994 and then did community service at the Naturschutzbund Deutschland until 1996 . From 1996 to 2002 he studied classical archeology, prehistory and early history and art history at the University of Jena , interrupted by a period of study at the Università degli Studi di Siena , where he in 1998/99 as part of the Erasmus program Etruscology occupied . With the work Comparative Investigations on the 'Nymphaeum' of Milreu and related systems in southern Portugal , he finished his studies with a Magister Artium . The doctorate also took place in Jena in 2006 with a dissertation on the subject of Sepultus in villa. The tombs of Roman villa owners. Studies on the origin and development from the beginnings to the end of the 4th century AD. Graen has been a research assistant at the Chair of Classical Archeology since October 2007 and, in succession to Verena Paul-Zinserling, curator of the antique collections of the University of Jena (Collection of Antique Cabarets and Cast collection). He was thus involved in the re-installation and reopening of the collection after 50 years of closure in 2012.

From 2002 to 2004, Graen and Angelika Geyer led the excavation project “Temple in Quinta de Marim ” in Olhão , Algarve . Here a late Roman mausoleum was explored. Between 2004 and 2007, archaeological investigations into the settlement structure of the Roman Empire followed in the vicinity of San Gimignano ("Il Monte"). He led this excavation project with Günther Schörner and Thomas Schierl . Since 2009 Graen has been leading an excavation in the Portuguese Algarve together with Angelika Geyer with the excavation project "The hinterland of the southern province of Lusitania: rural settlements and their role in the development of regional and supra-regional economic structures in the region between Silves and Loulé ". As the curator of the Jena teaching collection for the outstanding pieces by the Jena painter , Graen devotes himself to the publication of his excavation results and the burial culture of ancient cultures in particular to this collection, which he often includes in university teaching.

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Monographs

• Sepult in villa. The tombs of Roman villa owners. Studies on the origin and development from the beginnings to the end of the 4th century AD (= Antiquitates series , Volume 46), Kovač, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-3627-2 . Review by Archeology in Germany ; Review in the Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger; Review at GeschiMag

Editorships

• Editor with Matthias Recke : Herakles & Co. Gods and Heroes in Ancient Greece. Ancient art from the collections of the Justus Liebig University of Gießen and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Giessen, Wallenfels'sches Haus am Kirchenplatz, April 29 to July 18, 2010. Jena, City Museum, March 4 to June 19, 2011. (= work on classical archeology - information from the collection of antiquities at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , Volume 6), Inst. For Classical Studies. and Collection of Antiquities of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen 2010, ISBN 978-3-942259-02-6 .
• Death and dying in antiquity. Grave and burial of Egyptians, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. Theiss, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2306-4 [also: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-22792-1 ].
• Egypt. Unknown treasures from Thuringian collections. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum of Pre- and Early History Thuringia, Weimar (June 27th - August 24th, 2012). (= Contributions from the collections of the University of Jena , Volume 1), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814576-6-7 .
• with Mareike Rind and Henning Wabersich: Otium cum dignitate. Festschrift for Angelika Geyer on her 65th birthday. Studies on the archeology and reception history of antiquity. (= BAR International Series , Volume 2605), BAR Publishing, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-1-4073-1236-1 .

Web links

• Graen on the website of the University of Jena
• Dennis Graen at the Scientific Collections portal .