Friedrich Wilhelm Rösing

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Friedrich Wilhelm Rösing (born February 28, 1944 in Breslau ) is a German anthropologist and biologist .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Rösing studied biology , archeology , journalism and sociology in Mainz, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. In 1975 he received his doctorate in Hamburg with a thesis on a Merovingian skeletal population . From 1977 he worked as a lecturer in Ulm and completed his habilitation in 1987 with a thesis on an early historical burial ground in Egypt. In 1994 he became an adjunct professor for anthropology at the University of Ulm .

Friedrich W. Rösing is the son of the anthropologist Ilse Schwidetzky and brother of the cultural anthropologist Ina Rösing .

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Rösing's field of work includes the population biology of Europe, Egypt and southern Africa. He has carried out several studies of skeletal populations and field research on living (Africa). In addition, he dealt with the further development of osteological , paleodemographic and forensic methods. For several years, the focus of his work has been in forensic anthropology, where he has developed standards for the identification of individuals using skeletal remains or images. He teaches in all sub-areas of anthropology and has so far supervised 46 doctoral and diploma students. Rösing has been the publisher of Homo magazine since 1990 . Journal of Comparative Human Biology . He is also active as an expert and since 2005 Rösing has also been running a private expert practice.

Collaboration and honors

  • Member of the Advisory Board at the Journal of Paleopathology (Chieti)
  • Antropologia contemporanea (Firenze)
  • Collegium Antropologicum (Zagreb)
  • Przegląd Antropologiczny - Anthropological Review (Poznań)
  • International Journal of Legal Medicine.
  • Honorary member of the Croatian Society for Anthropology

Fonts (selection)

  • The Franconian population of Mannheim-Vogelstang (6th - 7th centuries) and the Germanic groups of Europe from the Merovingian period . Nat. Dissertation Hamburg 1975
  • A literature review of definitions of discrete features / anatomical variants in the human skull . Self-published, Ulm 1985 (with R. Reinhard)
  • Qubbet el Hawa and Elephantine. On the population history of Egypt. G Fischer, Stuttgart 1990
  • (as editor with KW Alt and M. Teschler-Nicola): Dental Anthropology. Fundamentals, Limits, and Prospects. Springer, Vienna 1998

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Rösing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the magazine at Elsevier
personal data
SURNAME Rösing, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw