Frank Nikulka

Frank Nikulka (* 1962 ) is a German prehistorian and university professor. He has been a professor at the University of Hamburg since 2010 and heads the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981, Frank Nikula was a regular soldier from 1981 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1989 he studied at the University of Hamburg , majoring in Prehistory and Protohistory and minor subjects in Soil Science and Ethnology. In order to obtain the master’s degree in 1989 in Hamburg , he presented the work “Early iron ore smelting and its experimental reconstruction: An analysis of previous attempts”.

Scientific activity

From 1989 to 1991 he was the excavation manager of the Bronze Age settlement Hitzacker-See in Lower Saxony. In 1991 he began taking material for his doctoral project at the Hallstatt burial ground in Riedenburg-Untereggersberg in Lower Bavaria. From 1992 to 1993 he was the scientific editor of the series "Archeology on the Main-Danube Canal". He completed his doctoral studies (1992–1995) at the Universities of Erlangen - Nuremberg and Tübingen in 1995 with a doctorate (summa cum laude) in Tübingen on "The Hallstatt and early La Tène cemetery of Riedenburg-Untereggersberg, district of Kelheim, Niederbayern". From 1996 to 2002 he was a research assistant (C1) at the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Münster . After completing his habilitation in Münster in 2003 (subject of the habilitation: "Archaeological Demography: Evaluation of International Research and Analysis of Population Relations in the European Bronze and Iron Ages") he received the Venia legendi for prehistory and early history. From 2002 to 2010 he was a department head at the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (member of the Association of State Archaeologists). He was a private lecturer and lecturer at the Universities of Münster, Hamburg and Greifswald . In 2010 he was appointed university professor (W2) at the University of Hamburg.

His focus is on the Bronze and Iron Ages, Slavic times, metallurgy as an economic factor and social determinant, causes of the variability of the Metal Age burial system, Celtic-Germanic cultural contacts and cultural diversity in the 1st millennium BC.

Web links

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Nikulka on the website of the University of Hamburg, accessed on April 4, 2019.