Dr. Heinz Cüppers Prize

The Dr. Heinz Cüppers Prize has been announced in honor of the archaeologist Heinz Cüppers since 2005 by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier and the museum's sponsorship group. The prize was first awarded in 2006.

The announcement takes place every two to three years. The prize is endowed with 2,000 euros. It is intended to honor young scientists who have submitted an outstanding work on the research of archeology , history or art in the city of Trier or the Trier region. A special prize is endowed with 1,000 euros.

Award winners

• 2006
  • Peter Henrich : The Roman settlement in the western Vulkaneifel . ISBN 978-3-923319-64-0 .
  • Special prize: Nicole Reifarth: The late antique sarcophagus burials from St. Maximin in Trier.
• 2008
  • Dorothea Hübner: Roman finger rings in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier.
  • Special prize: Daniel Bauerfeld: Jean Antoine's “bean tenth cards” in the Trier City Library as a historical and topographical source on Trier's city history.
• 2011
  • Jens Fachbach: Johann Georg Judas ' Chur. Trierischer Baw-Meisder '(around 1655–1726): On the architecture of an ecclesiastical electorate on the Rhine and Moselle in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. ISBN 978-3-7954-2685-9
• 2014
  • Eszter Harsányi: The Trier black engobed goods and their imitations in Noricum and Pannonia. ISBN 978-3-902666-30-7 .
  • Special Prize: Mathias Probst: The Paleolithic of the Magdalena Cave near Gerolstein.
• 2017
  • Bettina Kolbe: The late Roman belt components of the 4th century AD from the Trier city area.
  • Special prize: Alexander Hilpert: Archeology in the border region Saar-Lor-Lux: Antiquity research, networking and identity construction in the regional historical societies of the 19th century.

Web links

• Dr. Heinz Cüppers Prize at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (landesmuseum-trier.de)