Dieter Salzmann
Dieter Salzmann (born April 6, 1950 in Bochum ) is a German classical archaeologist .
From 1969 to 1976, Salzmann studied classical archeology, ancient history , art history as well as prehistory and early history at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . He received his doctorate in Bochum in 1976 with a thesis on the subject of "Investigations into ancient pebble mosaics". He then went to the Mediterranean region in 1976/77 as a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1978, Salzmann became a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . With the work “Portrait coins of Roman senators, knights and other historical persons” he qualified as a professor in Bonn in 1986 and then became a private lecturer there until 1991 . Between 1988 and 1991, Salzmann was a Heisenberg fellow from the German Research Foundation . In 1991 he moved to the University of Regensburg as C3 Professor , and in 1994 as C4 Professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology and Early Christian Archeology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . At the same time, he was director of the archaeological museum there until 2016 . Salzmann has been a member of the Expert Commission for the Assessment of Movable Ground Monuments since 2001, and since April 2007 a full member of the “Senate Committee for Art and Culture”. In 2015 he retired and was promoted to senior professor.
Salzmann is primarily concerned with ancient numismatics , in particular with the importance of coins as a mass medium in religious and political issues. In addition, he researches the Hellenistic residence city of Lysimacheia , where he carried out field research in the central settlement and the Chora , but also on the statues and reliefs from Zeugma and its surroundings and, since 1989, funded by the German Research Foundation , on the mosaics in Pergamon . Salzmann has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1991 and has been co-editor of the professional journal Boreas since 1995 . From 2007 to 2009 he acted as a scientific advisory board for the exhibition project "Imperium" in the LWL Roman Museum in Haltern am See .
literature
- “You can't imagine it gorgeous enough!” Festschrift for Dieter Salzmann on his 65th birthday , 2 volumes, Scriptorium, Marsberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-932610-57-8 .
Fonts
- Ancient coins. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Bochum, House Kemnade, June 1973 , Museum Bochum, Bochum 1973
- Investigations into the ancient pebble mosaics from the beginnings to the beginning of the tessera technology , Mann, Berlin 1982 (Archäologische Forschungen, Vol. 10). ISBN 3-7861-1300-9
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Chair (until 1983 professor): Hans-Volkmar Herrmann (1969–1973) | Werner Gauer (1974–1983) | Burkhardt Wesenberg (1985-2006) | Christian Kunze (since 2006)
Professorship: Dieter Salzmann (1991–1994) | Dietrich Boschung (1995–1996) | Christoph Reusser (1998–2007) | Dirk Steueragel (since 2010)
First professorship: Arthur Milchhoefer (1883–1895) | Hermann Winnefeld (1895–1896) | Friedrich Koepp (1896–1916) | Arnold von Salis (1916–1929) | Karl Lehmann-Hartleben (1929–1933) | Friedrich Matz (1934–1941) | Max Wegner (1942–1970) | Werner Fuchs (1972–1992) | Dieter Salzmann (1994–2015) | Achim Lichtenberger (since 2016)
Second professorship: Ludwig Budde (1962–1978) | Hans Wiegartz (1978-2001) | Magdalene Söldner (since 2001)
Professorship for Christian Archeology: Josef Fink (1962–1982) | Hugo Brandenburg (1982–1993) Dieter Korol (1996–2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salzmann, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |