Günter Ulbert

Günter Ulbert (born June 20, 1930 in Augsburg ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist . Ulbert made significant contributions to the Roman province of Raetia , to Roman military camps and to the region's late antiquity .

Career

Günter Ulbert had already participated in excavations with Ludwig Ohlenroth in Augsburg as a schoolboy . He studied Prehistory and Early History (minor subjects Classical Archeology and Ancient History ) at the University of Munich with Joachim Werner . A separate course in Provincial Roman Archeology did not yet exist at that time. In the winter semester of 1956/57 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation The early Roman castles Aislingen and Burghöfe . In May 1957 he became a research assistant at the Munich Institute of Prehistory. This was followed by his habilitation in the summer semester of 1964 on the subject of the Roman military station on the Lorenzberg near Epfach. Contributions to the archeology and history of the Alpine foothills during the Roman occupation.

After working as a private lecturer, he was appointed university lecturer in 1965, and in 1966 he was appointed to the scientific council. At the beginning of May 1969 he was offered the position of director of the Roman department in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz as successor to Hans Klumbach . In the same month the University of Ulbert awarded the title of adjunct professor. On Werner's initiative, a department for Provincial Roman Archeology was set up at the Institute for Prehistory and Ulbert was entrusted with the management. In the winter semester of 1969/70, the department received full doctoral rights.

During his time as a professor, Ulbert managed to sharpen the profile of the subject and to embed it sensibly between the neighboring disciplines of Prehistory and Early History, Ancient History and Classical Archeology. The subject of his research and teaching were the Roman military camps in the provinces of the Roman Empire, with a focus on the foothills of the Alps. In his work, he placed particular emphasis on the evaluation of the small finds as a source type, which is why the publications usually have extensive catalog sections. Ulbert attached great importance to teaching and led 29 students to do their doctorates, including some prominent archaeologists such as Siegmar von Schnurbein (1970), Wolfgang Czysz (1971), Michael Mackensen (1976/77, Habilitation 1991/92), Thomas Fischer (1978) , Hans-Peter Kuhnen (1981/82), C. Sebastian Sommer (1985), Werner Zanier (1988) or Michaela Konrad (1991).

In addition to teaching and research, Günter Ulbert worked as an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation . Since 1986 he has been a member of the Madrid Technical Committee of the German Archaeological Institute . Ulbert continued to campaign for the presentation of some Roman sites in accordance with historical monuments, for example in Ladenburg ( Lopodunum ) and for the Cambodunum Archaeological Park .

Ulbert ended his teaching as an active professor in the winter semester 1992/93. This was followed by a position as managing director of the commission for the research of the late Roman Raetien of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Günter Ulbert is the older brother of the Christian archaeologist Thilo Ulbert .

Fonts (selection)

• The Roman Danube forts Aislingen and Burghöfe (= Limes research. 1, ISSN  0417-3368 ). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1959, ( digitized version ).
• The Roman pottery from the legionary camp Augsburg-Oberhausen (= material booklets for Bavarian prehistory. 14, ZDB -ID 534018-4 ). Lassleben, Kallmünz / Opf. 1960.
• The Lorenzberg near Epfach. The early Roman military station (= publications of the Commission for the Archaeological Research of the Late Roman Raetia of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 3 = Munich contributions to prehistory. 9, ISSN  0580-1435 ). Beck, Munich 1965, (at the same time: Munich, university, habilitation paper, 1964).
• Roman weapons of the 1st century AD (= Small writings on the knowledge of the Roman occupation history of Southwest Germany. 4, ZDB -ID 236356-2 ). Society for Prehistory and Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern eV, Stuttgart 1968.
• The early Roman fort Rheingönheim. The finds from the years 1912 and 1913 (= Limes research. 9). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1969.
• The Roman Danube Fort Risstissen. Part 1: The finds made of metal, horn and bone (= documents on prehistory and early history from southern Württemberg-Hohenzollern. 4, ZDB -ID 145914-4 ). Müller & Gräff, Stuttgart 1970.
• as editor with Georg Kossack : Studies on prehistoric and early historical archeology. Festschrift for Joachim Werner on his 65th birthday (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. 1). 2 parts (Part 1: General, Prehistory, Roman times. Part 2: Early Middle Ages. ). Beck, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-00344-3 .
• with Thomas Fischer : The Limes in Bavaria. From Dinkelsbühl to Eining. Theiss, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8062-0351-2 .
• Cáceres el Viejo. A late Republican legionary camp in Spanish Extremadura (= Madrid contributions. 11). von Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-8053-0751-9 .
• as editor with Gerhard Weber: Conserved History? Ancient buildings and their preservation. Theiss, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0450-0 .
• The Auerberg. Volume 1: Topography, research history and wall excavations (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. 45). Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37500-6 .
• with Werner Zanier : The Auerberg. Volume 2: Settlement within the ramparts (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. 46). 2 parts (main volume, supplements). Beck, Munich 1996–1997, ISBN 3-406-10750-8 .

Festschrift

• Wolfgang Czysz , Claus M. Hüssen , Hans P. Kuhnen , C. Sebastian Sommer , Gerhard Weber (Eds.): Provincial Roman Research. Festschrift for Günter Ulbert on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= publications of the Archaeological Research Center Ingolstadt. ). Leidorf, Espelkamp 1995, ISBN 3-89646-000-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Ulbert in the catalog of the German National Library