Hans-Peter Kuhnen

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Hans-Peter Kuhnen

Hans-Peter Kuhnen (born March 23, 1953 in Göppingen ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist . His main focus is on research on Roman Trier ( Augusta Treverorum ) and on the archeology of Israel .

Career

After the civil service , which he with the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace made in Israel, studied Kuhnen Provincial Roman Archeology at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg and Tel-Aviv , with minors in Prehistory and Early History and Ancient History . In 1982 he received his doctorate in Munich under Günter Ulbert with the subject of studies on the settlement archeology of Carmel. Israel between Hellenism and Late Antiquity.

From 1982 to 1987 Kuhnen was a consultant for branch museums and public relations at the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich , then until 1990 acting head of the archaeological department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg . From 1990 to 1994 he headed the archaeological collections of the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart and was responsible for the Limes Museum Aalen , Roman Museum Arae Flaviae Rottweil and the Roman wine cellar Oberriexingen . From 1994 to 2004 Kuhnen was head of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier . From 2003 to 2005 he worked in the Ministry for Science, Further Education, Research and Culture Mainz on the preparation of a structural reform of the state museums, archives and monument preservation in Rhineland-Palatinate . From November 1, 2005 to August 15, 2011, Kuhnen headed the Institute for Archeology and Natural Sciences Koblenz at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Rhineland-Palatinate (since 2007 General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate ). Since August 15, 2011 he has been the Senior Academic Director at the Institute for Classical Studies, Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Mainz , where he teaches Provincial Roman and Biblical archeology. In 2012 he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz and received the venia legendi in Provincial Roman Archeology. In 2018 the University of Mainz awarded him the title of adjunct professor .

The focus of his teaching and research activities since 2009 has been the early Islamic caliph's palace Khirbat al Minya on the Sea of ​​Galilee (Israel), for the restoration of which he received funding from the Federal Foreign Office's cultural preservation program in 2015 and 2016.

Kuhnen has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1999 . He is also the honorary secretary of the Association of Museums in the Greater Region SaarLorLuxPalatinatWallonie and has been a member of the German-Israeli Society Trier since 2008. He received teaching positions at the universities of Munich (1986/88), Saarbrücken (1988/9), Heidelberg (1989/1990), Stuttgart (1993/4), Trier (2000/01) and Mainz (since 2006 in Biblical Archeology and Vor - and early history ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Northwest Palestine in Hellenistic-Roman times. Buildings and graves in the Carmel area. VCH-Verlag, Weinheim 1986.
  • Studies on the chronology and settlement archeology of Carmel (Israel) between Hellenism and Late Antiquity (= Tübingen Atlas on the Middle East. Supplement B 72), Wiesbaden 1989.
  • Palestine in Greco-Roman times (= Handbook of Archeology. Western Asia II, 2), Munich 1990.
  • From racing fire to pointed bars. Ancient iron smelting on the Eastern Alb. Self-published by the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1991.
  • (as editor and author): Stormed - cleared - forgotten? The Limesfall and the end of Roman rule in south-west Germany (= guides and inventory catalogs of the archaeological collections. Volume 2). Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992.
  • (as editor and author): With Torah and courage to die. Judea in the resistance against the Romans from Herod to Bar Kochba (= guide and inventory catalogs III ). Württemberg State Museum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1994.
  • (with Ellen Riemer): Agriculture in Southwestern Germany in Rome. Guide through the Römischen Weinkeller Oberriexingen (= guide and inventory catalogs of the archaeological collections. Volume 4). Branch museum of the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1995.
  • (as co-editor and author, together with W. Czysz, C.-M. Hüssen and G. Weber (ed.) :) Provincial Roman research. Festschrift Günter Ulbert. Espelkamp 1995.
  • With Torah and courage to die. Judea in the resistance against the Romans from Herod to Bar-Kochba. State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory, Oldenburg 1996.
  • (as editor and author): Religio Romana. Paths to the gods in ancient Trier (= series of publications by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. No. 12). Trier 1996.
  • (as editor and author): Archeology between Hunsrück and Eifel. Guide to the excavation sites of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. (= Series of publications of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier . No. 15). Trier 1999.
  • (as editor and author): Morituri. Human sacrifice - those doomed to die - criminal courts. Trier 2000.
  • (as editor and author): submerged. popped up. River finds. From history. With their history (= series of publications by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. No. 21). Trier 2001.
  • (as editor and author): The Roman Trier (= guide to archaeological monuments in Germany. No. 40). Stuttgart 2001.
  • (as editor and author): Propaganda. Power. History. Archeology on the Rhine and Moselle in the service of National Socialism (= series of publications by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. No. 24). Trier 2002.
  • (with S. Pfahl and F. Unruh): Forma Urbis Trevericae. Roman Trier in archaeological city plans (= preliminary studies for the archaeological city cadastre. Issue 4, series of publications by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier No. 22 C). Trier 2002.
  • (as co-editor and author together with Wolfgang Zwickel): Archeology in the Holy Land. 60 years of foundation of the modern state of Israel (= small works on the Old and New Testament. No. 8). Cameos 2009.
  • with Wilhelm Reusch , Marcel Lutz : The excavations in the western part of the Trier Kaiserthermen 1960-1966. The city palace of the financial procurator of the provinces of Belgica, Upper and Lower Germany (= archeology from Rhineland-Palatinate. No. 1). Rahden / Westf. 2012.
  • (with Franziska Bloch): Caliphate on the Sea of ​​Galilee: The Palace of Khirbat al-Minya / The age of the Caliphs at the Sea of ​​Galilee: The Palace of Khirbat al-Minya. Mainz 2014.
  • Dated Evidence of Landscape Change around Khirbet al- Minya between the Hellenistic and the Early Islamic periods: Archaeological contributions to a field survey in geoarcheology by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz / FRG in cooperation with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In: Hans-Peter Kuhnen, Khirbat al-Minya: The Umayyad Palace on the Sea of ​​Galilee. With contributions by F. Bloch, K. Cytryn, M. Dotter Weich, J. Häser, H.-P. Kuhnen, M. Ritter, Ch. Schneider and W. Zwickel. Orient-Archäologie 36 (Rahden / Westf., 2016), 23–58.
  • (as editor and author): Amphitheater (Trier) I. Excavations and research 1816-1996 With contributions by Sibylle Bauer, Evamarie Bange-Goddard, Bruno Kremer, Hans-Peter Kuhnen, Stefan F. Pfahl and Marcus Thiel. (= Archeology from Rhineland-Palatinate. No. 2) Rahden / Westf. 2017.
  • Desert border of the Roman Empire. The Roman Limes in Israel and Jordan. With contributions by Johanna Ritter-Burkert and Stefan F. Pfahl and texts by Dennis Becker, Cathrin Ohrmann, Sven Mietzsch, Kolja Richter, Hanne Spitzlay and Ute Wahl, Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag Mainz 2018 (=  Archaeological Guide to the Middle East 2 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archaeologists from Mainz reveal new findings on the history of the early Islamic caliphate palace Khirbat al-Minya. In: uni-mainz.de. October 21, 2016, accessed June 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuhnen, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen