Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer

Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer (2011)

Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer (born September 12, 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a German medieval archaeologist .

The son of Hanns Gringmuth-Dallmer studied prehistory and early history as well as geography at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , from which he graduated as a prehistoric graduate. From 1968 to 1991 Gringmuth-Dallmer was a research associate at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History of the German Academy of Sciences and, after the restructuring of the academy, at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology (ZIAGA) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1975 he received his doctorate at the academy with a thesis on the development of the prehistoric cultural landscape on the territory of the GDR with special consideration of the settlement areas , expert was Joachim Herrmann . The habilitation took place in 1990 with Joachim Herrmann, Hans Walther and Waltraut Bleiber through comparative studies on the early medieval development of the country in western Central Europe .

After the dissolution of ZIAGA, he worked from 1992 to 2000 on the "Oder Project" of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). From there he has been delegated to the Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory in Berlin since 2001 as managing director of the “Commission for Research into Collections of Archaeological Finds and Documents from Northeast Central Europe” . In addition, Gringmuth-Dallmer has been a private lecturer since 1996 and an adjunct professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2002 . Here he mainly held lectures and seminars on settlement archeology of the Middle Ages . In addition to his activities at the museum, university and DAI, he is engaged in comparative studies on the high-medieval eastern settlement. Gringmuth-Dallmer is a corresponding member of the DAI.

Gringmuth-Dallmer's most important research areas are the archeology of the Middle Ages, settlement and environmental archeology as well as the specialist history of prehistory and early history in the GDR.

Fonts

• The development of the prehistoric cultural landscape on the territory of the GDR with special consideration of the settlement areas , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983 (Schriften zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte, 35)
• Research on people and the environment in the Oder region in prehistoric and early history (editor with Lech Leciejewicz), von Zabern, Mainz 2002 (Roman-Germanic research, vol. 60) ISBN 3-8053-2901-6

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 248.
• Gerson H. Jeute (Ed.): Aedificatio terrae. Contributions to the environmental and settlement archeology of Central Europe. Festschrift for Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer on his 65th birthday. Leidorf, Rahden 2007, ISBN 978-3-89646-426-2 ( International Archeology. Studia honoraria. Vol. 26).

Web links

• Literature by and about Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer in the catalog of the German National Library