Dirk Krauße

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Dirk Lutz Krauße (born January 25, 1962 in Haan , Rhineland ) is a German prehistorian and state archaeologist from Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Dirk Krauße studied Prehistory and Early History , Ethnology , Folklore and Anthropology in Göttingen from 1983 to 1987 and Prehistory and Early History, European Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Kiel from 1987 to 1993 . In 1993, he was charged with a dissertation on the cultural-historical classification of drinking and dining utensils from the late Hallstatt princely grave of Hochdorf doctorate - a job for which he 1995 with the Kurt-Bittel Prize for Süddeutsche archeology was excellent.

From the spring of 1994 Krauße headed the excavations in the Celtic / Roman settlement on the Kastellberg in Wallendorf in the Eifel as part of the priority program "Romanization" of the German Research Foundation . From November 1995 to October 2001 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . His habilitation thesis , submitted in July 2001, is dedicated to the investigation of the Iron Age cultural change and the Romanization of Eastern Gaul. In the same year he was appointed private lecturer . He then worked as an academic advisor at the University of Kiel until 2003 and led, among other things, excavations on the late Hallstatt princely seat of Mont Lassois in Burgundy . In 2003, Krauße became head of department at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , where he was appointed State Archaeologist in 2008 . In addition to his work as a state archaeologist, Krauße is a lecturer at the University of Tübingen , from which he was appointed adjunct professor in 2011 .

In addition, Krauße is involved in the Association of State Archaeologists on a national level and in the EAC (Europae Archaeologiae Consilium) on an international level. His main research interests are the archeology of the Central European Iron Ages and, above all, questions of settlement archeology on urbanization and centralization processes, as well as research on elite formation and acculturation processes . Theoretical considerations on the interpretation of archaeological sources and on the formation of analogies are of great importance in his work. The archaeological investigation of a richly furnished early Celtic chamber grave in the Bettelbühl grave field near Herbertingen , in which the grave chamber was recovered in an 80-ton block and excavated in the laboratory, aroused national media interest .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hochdorf III. The drinking and dining service from the late Hallstatt prince grave of Eberdingen-Hochdorf (district of Ludwigsburg) . Research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg 64 (Stuttgart 1996).
  • Iron Age cultural change and Romanization in the Moselle-Eifel region. The Celtic-Roman settlement of Wallendorf and its archaeological environment . Roman-Germanic research 63 (Mainz 2006).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Dirk L. Krauße on the website of the DFG Priority Program Prince Seats.
  2. ↑ Staff website of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Middle Ages in Tübingen.
  3. ↑ Website of the excavation project Celtic Block . - Dirk Krausse, Nicole Ebinger-Rist: 80 tons Celtic grave - A newly discovered early Celtic grand grave near the Heuneburg, Herbertingen, Kr. Sigmaringen. In: Jörg Bofinger, Nicole Ebinger-Rist and Solveig Möllenberg: Discoveries - Highlights of State Archeology 2007–2010 . Volume accompanying the exhibition, Esslingen 2011, pp. 110–115.
personal data
SURNAME Krauße, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauße, Dirk Lutz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan