Frank Berger (numismatist)

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Frank Berger (* 1957 ) is a German numismatist and museum curator .

Life

After graduating from high school, Frank Berger studied history and German studies from 1977 to 1984 in Wipperfürth. From 1984 to 1985 worked for the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony in Hanover . Frank Berger was a co-founder of the Konrad Bayer Society in 1985 . He received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Hanover . From 1985 to 1997 he worked at the Kestner Museum in Hanover. Since 1992 he has had teaching positions at the universities of Hanover, Osnabrück, Frankfurt and Marburg. Berger has been a curator at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt since 1997 . There he is responsible for the coin cabinet, weapons and armor, technology, models and dioramas.

Berger publishes publications on numismatics and polar research and is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . His main area of ​​research are Roman found coins. He also deals with the dating of Roman coins of the Roman-Germanic battles, such as the Harzhorn event and the Varus battle .

Awards

Fonts

  • with Christian Stoess : Osnabrück, Aurich, Oldenburg (= the coins found in the Roman period in Germany. Dept. VII (Lower Saxony and Bremen), volume 1/3). Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7861-1550-8 .
  • Hanover, Lüneburg, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Stade, Bremen (= The coins found in the Roman period in Germany. Section VII (Lower Saxony and Bremen), Volume 4/9). Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7861-1551-6 .
  • The coins of the Roman Republic in the Kestner Museum Hannover (= collection catalogs of the holdings in the Kestner Museum. Volume 7). Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-924029-12-1 .
  • with Helmut Reitz : The Bevern coin find (around 1460). Bremervörde 1989.
  • The antique gold coins in the Kestner Museum Hannover (= collection catalogs of the holdings in the Kestner Museum. Volume 9). Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-924029-15-6 .
  • Investigations into Roman coin finds in northwest Germany. Mann, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7861-1675-X (dissertation, University of Hanover, 1990).
  • The medieval bracteates in the Kestner Museum Hannover (= collection catalogs of the holdings in the Kestner Museum , volume 12). Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-924029-21-0 .
  • The Roman found coins: text and plates (= Kalkriese. Vol. 1). Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1917-7 .
  • Money without limits. Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-89282-032-5 .
  • 12 become one: money for Europe. Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89282-041-4 .
  • Frankfurt and the North Pole: Researchers and discoverers in the eternal ice. Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-285-7 .
  • Carl Weyprecht (1838–1881): Seeheld, polar researcher, geophysicist. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-4019-1 .
  • with Enrico Mazzoli : Eduard Ritter von Orel (1841-1892) and the Austro-Hungarian north polar expedition with his retreat diary from 1874. Trieste 2010, ISBN 978-88-96940-38-9 .
  • with Christian Setzepfandt : 101 non-locations in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-7973-1248-8 .
  • with Enrico Mazzoli: Trieste and the North Pole. The reports in the Trieste newspapers about the Austro-Hungarian north polar expedition of 1872/1874 with the expedition diaries of a sailor (boatswain Pietro Lusina) and the machinist Josef Pospischil. Trieste 2014, ISBN 978-88-6803-083-4 .
  • Julius Payer . The unexplored world of mountains and ice. Mountain pioneer - polar driver - history painter. Innsbruck / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7022-3441-6 .
  • with Riccardo Decarli : Alla Scoperta di mondi glaciali. Julius Payer, ritratto di alpinista, viaggiatore polar e pittore. Lecco 2015.
  • 101 money locations in Frankfurt . Frankfurt am Main 2016, Societätsverlag. ISBN 978-3-95542-186-1 .

Editorships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curators of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt , accessed on March 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ Deutsches Archäologisches Institut  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 10, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dainst.org  
  3. ↑ The Roman-Germanic battlefield of the Harzhorn , press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture from August 25, 2010 (PDF file; 900 kB)
  4. ↑ Coins reveal the time of the battle In: stern.de of April 17, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German numismatist and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1957