Felix Biermann

Felix Paul Biermann (born December 19, 1969 in Herdecke ) is a German medieval archaeologist .

Felix Biermann studied prehistory and early history , medieval archeology, art history and history at the University of Münster , the University of Marburg , the University of Bamberg and the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) from 1989 to 1995 . He completed his master's degree in Berlin, the subject of the master's thesis was Leuthen-Wintdorf. The castle settlement complex "Burchel" and its references to the Slavic settlement system between Elbe / Saale and Neisse . The course was followed by a time as a research assistant in the “Germanic-Slavic-Germans” project at the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Frankfurt until 1997 . The doctorate took place in 1997 in Berlin on the subject of Slavic settlement between the Elbe, Neisse and Lubsza. Archaeological studies of settlement and material culture in the early and high Middle Ages . Then Biermann performed his community service in 1997/98 in the Lower Monument Protection Authority / City Archeology Brandenburg an der Havel . In 1998/99 a one-year travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute followed, in 2000/01 a 13-month Feodor Lynen research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw . In 2001 Biermann became a research assistant at the Chair for Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Greifswald . During this time, he was a substitute professor at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2005/06 and completed his habilitation in 2007 in Greifswald with a thesis on the topic of studies on the village of the eastern settlement period. Archaeological investigations into the rural eastern settlement of the Middle Ages with special consideration of the deserted villages of Miltendorf and Damsdorf in Brandenburg . From 2007 until the end of the chair in 2011, Biermann was a substitute professor at the Chair of Prehistory and Protohistory at HU Berlin. Since 2011 he has been a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation at the University of Göttingen .

Biermann primarily researches the archeology of early history and the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on Slavic archeology. He is also interested in research on castles and town centers as well as in settlement and economic history. He is currently doing research on Usedom in the Middle Ages , on the Belbuck Monastery near Treptow on the Rega , and on the Linons on the Lower Middle Elbe. Biermann is a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .

Fonts

• Slavic settlement between the Elbe, Neisse and Lubsza. Archaeological studies on settlement and material culture in the early and high Middle Ages , Habelt, Bonn 2000 (university research on prehistoric archeology, volume 65; writings on the archeology of Germanic and Slavic early history, volume 5), ISBN 3-7749-2988-2 .
• Pennigsberg. Studies on the Slavic castle near Mittenwalde and on the settlement system of the 7th / 8th centuries up to the 12th century at the Teltow and in the Berlin area (ed.), Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2001 (contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe, Volume 26), ISBN 3-930036-50-9 .
• The rural eastern settlement of the Middle Ages in northeast Germany. Investigations into the development of the country in the 12th to 14th centuries in rural areas Contributions to an interdisciplinary conference of the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Greifswald, April 16 and 17, 2004 (Ed. With Günter Mangelsdorf ), Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005 ( Greifswalder Mitteilungen , Volume 7), ISBN 3-631-54117-1 .
• Sypniewo. An early medieval castle-settlement complex in North Mazovia, Warsaw 2006 (Wcesnośredniowieczny kompleks osadniczy na połnocnym Mazowszu 1. Archeologia Mazowsza in Podlasia. Studia i Materiały IV).
• Castella Maris Baltici VII. Contributions to the conference: “The city as a castle. Architectural, legal and socio-historical aspects of fortified cities in the Baltic Sea region from the Middle Ages to the early modern period ”, 03.-06. September 2003 (Ed. With C. Herrmann and M. Müller), Greifswald 2006 (Archaeologia Medii Aevi Finlandiae XI).
• Parish churches in the cities of the Hanseatic region. Contributions to a colloquium from December 10th to 13th, 2003 in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. Archeology and History in the Baltic Sea Region (Ed. With M. Schneider and T. Terberger), Leidorf, Rahden 2006 (Archeology and History in the Baltic Sea Region, Volume 1), ISBN 978-3-89646-461-3 .
• Settlement, communication and economy in the West Slavic settlement area. Contributions of the section on the early Slavic history of the 5th German Archaeological Congress in Frankfurt an der Oder, April 4-7, 2005 (Ed. With Thomas Kersting), Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007 (Contributions to the Prehistory and Early History of Central Europe, Volume 46) , ISBN 978-3-937517-65-0 .
• “Observing things ...” Archaeological and historical research on the early history of Central and Northern Europe. Festschrift for Günter Mangelsdorf on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Ed.), Leidorf, Rahden 2008 (Archeology and History in the Baltic Sea Region, Volume 2), ISBN 978-3-89646-462-0 .
• Klasztor premonstratensów w Białobokach: archeologia i historia = The Premonstratensian Monastery in Belbuck: archeology and history . (Ed. With Marian Rębkowski), Szczecin 2015, ISBN 978-83-63760-47-2 .

literature

• Achim Leube : Prehistory between the Empire and the reunified Germany. 100 years of prehistory and early history at the Berlin University Unter den Linden. Habelt, Bonn 2010. ISBN 978-3-7749-3629-4 , pp. 230-232.

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Biermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Göttingen

Footnotes

1. ↑ Directory of members on the website of the Historical Commission .