Hauke ​​Kenzler

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Hauke ​​Kenzler (* 1969 in Cuxhaven ) is a German medieval and modern archaeologist who teaches as a private lecturer at the University of Bamberg .

Life

Hauke ​​Kenzler completed his studies in prehistory , geography and ethnology at the University of Hamburg , which he began in 1989 with a Magister Artium . The topic of the work was archaeological investigations on finds and findings from the house at Königstrasse 9 in Lübeck. In 1999 he was given a thesis on archaeological research on the Kornmarkt in Zwickau. The example of a medieval marketplace in the fabric of the city and the absolute chronology of Zwickau ceramics are promoted. In 2010 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bamberg on the subject of the high and late medieval settlement of the Ore Mountains. Strategies for the colonization of an unfavorable agricultural area .

From 1995 to 2001 and 2003/2004 he was employed at the State Office for Archeology in Saxony and headed the city center excavations in Zwickau (until 1997) and the interdisciplinary investigations in Breunsdorf , district of Leipziger Land , a village completely devastated for open-cast lignite mining. In 2002/03 he was responsible for the inventory of the archaeological collection of the Leipzig Natural History Museum at the Lichtenstein Training Center. From 2004 to 2011 he was a scientific assistant and senior academic adviser at the chair for archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Era at the University of Bamberg, where he completed his habilitation in 2009 on the high and late medieval settlement history of the Ore Mountains. He then worked as a freelance archaeologist, area officer at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (2014/15) and research assistant at the University of Tübingen (2012–2015 and 2017). He has held teaching positions at the Universities of Prague (2012) and Halle (2014), held a substitute professorship in Tübingen (2016/17) and was visiting professor in Vienna (2017).

Hauke ​​Kenzler has carried out numerous excavations and participated in large and small exhibitions. Communicating archaeological knowledge to the general public is one of his most important concerns. His research focuses on landscape archeology in the German-Czech border region, the time of the crusaders in Palestine, mining archeology and modern burial customs.

Publications (selection)

  • Archaeological research on the Kornmarkt in Zwickau. Ceramic chronology - history of the square - history of the city. (= publications of the State Office for Archeology with State Museum for Prehistory 32.) Dresden 2001.
  • The Breunsdorf cemetery - results of the archaeological investigations. In: Judith Oexle (ed.): Contributions to sacred architecture and the customs of the dead in a village south of Leipzig. Breunsdorf Vol. 2. Dresden 2002, pp. 147-300.
  • Structure and development of the mountain town on the stairs . Results of the archaeological investigations from 2005 to 2007 . In: Work and research reports on the Saxon soil monument preservation 50, 2008, ISBN 978-3-910008-86-1 , pp. 263-307.
  • The high and late medieval settlement of the Ore Mountains . Strategies for the colonization of an unfavorable agricultural area . Bamberg Writings on the Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times 4, Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7749-3742-0 .
  • Religion, Status and Taboo. Changing Funeral Rites in Catholic and Protestant Germany . In: Sarah Tarlow (Ed.): The Archeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe . Warsaw / Berlin 2015, pp. 148–169.
  • together with Hans Losert : The Reconstruction of Medieval Lifeworlds / The Reconstruction of Medieval Lifeworlds . A colloquium on the occasion of Ingolf Ericsson's 60th birthday. Bamberg Colloquia on Archeology in the Middle Ages and Modern Times 2. Eckhard Bodner, Pressath 2015, ISBN 978-3-939247-64-7 .
  • Medieval Town Structures of Arsur in Israel on the Basis of Non-Invasive Methods. Results of a German-Israeli Project Collaboration . Journal of the German Palestine Association 132 (2), 2016, pp. 151–174.
  • together with Barbara Scholkmann , Rainer Schreg : Archeology of the Middle Ages and the Modern Age - Basic Knowledge . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26811-5 .
  • Everything you always wanted to know about archaeologists. Indiana Jones by profession . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7431-2879-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kenzler, Hauke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medieval archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven , Germany