Felix Müller (prehistoric)

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Felix Müller (* 1952 in Basel ) is a Swiss prehistorian .

Felix Müller studied Prehistory at the University of Basel , where he in 1983 with one of Ludwig Berger and the Marburg Prehistorians Otto-Herman Frey supervised dissertation on frühlatènezeitliche disk collars doctorate was.

He then worked at the Bern Historical Museum , initially as a curator . In 1990 he received his habilitation in prehistory at the University of Bern with a paper on the mass discovery from Tiefenau near Bern . From 1997 until his retirement at the end of October 2014, Felix Müller was head of the archeology department and deputy director of the museum. In the academic year 2000/2001 he was appointed honorary professor for prehistory at the University of Bern for special achievements, and in 2015 he retired in this position .

His research focuses on the culture and religion of the Celts . In this context, he conceived the internationally acclaimed exhibition The Art of the Celts , which was shown in 2009 in the Historical Museum Bern and then in the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart .

Publications (selection)

  • The early La Tène disc neck rings (= Roman-Germanic research. Volume 46). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-0994-5 (= dissertation).
  • The mass find from Tiefenau near Bern. For the interpretation of the Latin period collection finds with weapons (= Antiqua. Volume 20). Swiss Society for Prehistory and Early History, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-9080-0612-0 (= habilitation thesis Bern).
  • with Gilbert Kaenel , Geneviève Lüscher (ed.): Switzerland from the Palaeolithic to the early Middle Ages. SPM. From Neanderthals to Charlemagne. = La Suisse du Paléolithique à l'aube du Moyen-Age. Volume 4: Iron Age. = Age you Fer. = Età del Ferro. Swiss Society for Prehistory and Early History, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-908006-53-8 .
  • Gods, gifts, rituals. Religion in the early history of Europe (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 92). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2801-X1.
  • with Geneviève Lüscher: The Celts in Switzerland. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-8062-1759-9 .
  • Art of the Celts. 700 BC - 700 AD Belser, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7630-2539-8 .
  • The art of the Celts . CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63057-6 .
  • with Regine Stapfer: The finds from La Tène in the Bernisches Historisches Museum . Verlag Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-9523269-8-5 .
  • People and heroes. Ancestor cult in the early history of Europe . De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-033626-9
  • Restless. The amazing life of the archaeologist and inventor Jakob Wiedmer-Stern (1876–1928) . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-0340-1599-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Review Alexa Weyrauch-Pung, in: Archäologische Informations 29, Nr. 1 & 2, 2006, S. 181-183 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prehistoric
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel