Gabriele Rasbach

Gabriele Rasbach (* 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Gabriele Rasbach grew up in Frankfurt am Main and attended elementary school there from 1968 to 1972. After graduating from the Altkönig School in Kronberg im Taunus in 1981, she completed a commercial apprenticeship in the book trade by 1983.

From 1984 to 1989 she studied Greek and Roman history, prehistory and early history as well as art history at the University of Frankfurt . She completed her studies in 1989 with a master's thesis on the subject of annotated bibliography on grave finds in Lower Austria - Latène period to the early Middle Ages . From 1989 to 1990 she compiled the inventory of the finds from the Roman military camp Stockstadt in the Saalburg Museum in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . From 1991 to 1994 she worked as a research assistant at the Roman-Germanic Commission (RGK). In 1993 she did her doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on The Roman Age Tombs of Asciburgium , Kr. Wesel. The northern burial ground.

From 1994 Rasbach was a research assistant at the RGK, since 2002 she has been the scientific director of the library, the electronic bibliography and the archive of the RGK of the German Archaeological Institute . “The main focus of the library at Palmengartenstrasse 10-12 in Frankfurt am Main is literature on prehistoric and early historical archeology of Europe, including the archeology of the Roman provinces and archeology of the Middle Ages. The archive contains excavation documents, files and correspondence from the Imperial Limes Commission and the Roman-Germanic Commission. It also keeps documents on the history of the RGK as well as correspondence with domestic and foreign scholars. It also contains the scientific legacies of former directors, employees and friends of colleagues (including Gerhard Bersu , Hans Jürgen Eggers , Hans Jürgen Hundt , Ernst Sprockhoff ). "

Rasbach appears as a speaker at various colloquia and is a lecturer for the Vindonissa professorship for archeology of the Roman provinces at the University of Basel . There she holds seminars and exercises on the subject of "The Upper and High Rhine Area in (Early) Roman Times", "Military Installations of the Roman Empire on the High and Upper Rhine and in the Alps" and "Funeral customs in the north-western provinces of the empire Romanum ”as well as the excursion“ Iron Age and Roman sites on the Upper and Upper Rhine ”.

Excavations and research focus

Gabriele Rasbach was involved in numerous excavations as an employee and leader:

• Schwabmünchen ( district of Augsburg , Bavaria , Germany ): Roman pottery in Rapis ,
• Biberist ( District of Solothurn , Canton of Solothurn , Switzerland ): Villa rustica by Biberist-Spitalhof ,
• Alise-Sainte-Reine ( Département Côte-d'Or , Burgundy , France ): Caesarian military installations and late antique military camp in Alesia ,
• Zenowo - Kriwina ( Oblast Russe , Bulgaria ): Late antique military camp Iatrus ,
• Ober-Mörlen - Langenhain ( Wetteraukreis , Hessen , Germany): Roman villa,
• Mamming / Pilsting - Peigen ( Dingolfing-Landau district , Bavaria, Germany): early medieval burial ground.
• 1996–2009: Excavation management together with Armin Becker in Lahnau - Waldgirmes , ( Lahn-Dill-Kreis , Hessen, Germany): Research excavation in the Augustan city founding in Germania Magna (4 BC to 16 AD)

She is working on the final publication on the excavation in Waldgirmes and is primarily concerned with the transition from the pre-Roman Iron Age to the Roman Empire in the low mountain range.

Memberships

• 1998–2005: Representative of the non-managerial scientists at the German Archaeological Institute in the central directorate of the DAI
• since 1997: Member of the Commission for State Archaeological Research in Hesse
• since 1998: Full member of the DAI
• since 2004: Member of the board of the Kronberg Castle Foundation in Taunus
• since 2011: Permanent observer in the Förderverein Römisches Forum Waldgirmes eV
• since 2012: Member of the Advisory Board of the Historical-Archaeological Society Frankfurt am Main

Web links

• Vita on the website of the German Archaeological Institute
• Vita on the website of the University of Basel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summarized and abbreviated according to the German Archaeological Institute. Roman-Germanic Commission. Library Frankfurt am Main. ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Günther Moosbauer: The Varus Battle , 2nd edition, CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-56257-0 , p. 120.
3. ↑ Ralf-Peter Märtin: Find von Waldgirmes: The Kaiser was smashed , Frankfurter Allgemeine , August 30, 2009.
4. ↑ Anita Strecker: Sensational find in the field. Exhibition documents excavations , Frankfurter Rundschau , March 17, 2010.
5. ↑ Habilitation project Dr. Gabriele Rasbach: The finds from the late Augustusian "Forum" of Waldgirmes (Lahnau, Hessen, D) , University of Basel , December 1, 2011.