Holger Grönwald

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Holger Grönwald (born February 11, 1974 in Weimar ) is a German archaeologist and scientific draftsman.

Life

Childhood and youth

Holger Grönwald is the third son of Bernd Grönwald and Marlis Grönwald (née Mehler). After attending the general education polytechnic high school Louis Fürnberg in Weimar from 1980 to 1990, he completed the extended high school Friedrich Schiller, the later Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Weimar until the Abitur in 1992. Membership in a working group “soil monument preservation” at the museum for primeval and Early history of Thuringia and the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology shaped his career aspirations early on. Excavation work in 1988 and 1989 laid the technical foundations that he applied from 1990 to excavation work on the high medieval castles Partistagno, Zucco and Cucagna in Friuli / Italy . After optional drawing courses at the school and the painting school in Weimar, courses at the former college of architecture and construction shaped his graphic skills.

Education

Holger Grönwald studied prehistory and early history and classical archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Achim Leube , Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer and Johan Callmer as well as Detlef Rößler and Henning Wrede . During his studies, he and fellow students looked after the collection of the former chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Humboldt University and was co-editor of the course catalog for all archaeological subjects in Berlin . In addition to working as a student assistant in the archeozoology of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI, 1995–1997), in the “Germanic-Slavic-Germans” project taken over by the German Research Foundation from the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology , and in the Roman “Oder project” -Germanic Commission , during the excavations of the University of Potsdam in Tell Basta / Zagazig in Egypt and as a draftsman in the Akarnanien project of the architecture department at the DAI in Stratos / Greece, he led courses on drawing and determination of archaeological finds and, from 2001 on, teaching excavations in the field of Medieval archeology. A broad spectrum of field practice at home and abroad could be acquired in employment relationships with public institutions such as the DAI as well as various state monument offices and excavation companies in Brandenburg and Berlin. The interests and focal points of work are based on medieval and field archeology , the development of ceramics in Central Europe, the graphic implementation of archaeological finds and reconstructions as well as ethno- archeology , preferably of the Balkans . At the end of his studies and afterwards, Holger Grönwald worked several campaigns as a draftsman for special finds from the Volkmar von Graeves excavations with the University of Bochum in Miletus , Turkey .

promotion

As part of an employment relationship as a research assistant at the Department of Prehistoric Archeology and Archeology of the Middle Ages of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Freiburg, between 2007 and 2009, Holger Grönwald carried out the research excavations carried out with the Istituto per la Ricostruzione del Castello di Chucco-Zucco on the high medieval castle Cucagna in Friuli in north-east Italy. On the subject of "Archeology and history of the high and late medieval development in Friuli - the role and development of Cucagna Castle and its equipment in northeastern Italy" , he was awarded a doctorate in 2014 at the University of Freiburg under the supervision of Sebastian Brather. phil. PhD.

Professional activities

After working in Freiburg , he was employed in the Department of Building and Urban History at the TU Berlin in the DFG project (desert castle) Qasr al-Mschatta with the Museum of Islamic Art of the Berlin State Museums . His work on the project included several work stays in Jordan , during which, among other things, he exposed the foundation structures of the buildings behind the left half of Mschatta's gate facade. Furthermore, he was at the TOPOI -RESEARCH Project C-3-6 to convey archaeological research based on the architectural traditions in the Sasanian and Islamic times in the context of the recording and spatial allocation (recontextualization) of bundles of finds from Ctesiphon / Iraq and the Yousef Jameel digitization project employed for the scientific recording and description of finds from the Ctesiphon excavations between the 2nd and 14th centuries. Excavation projects in Brandenburg and Lower Austria as well as excavation work and orders for the graphic implementation of finds accompanied these activities and continued beyond that. In addition to redrawn large bundles of finds and a specialization in the graphic reconstruction of richly figuratively decorated antique ceramics, the facade of the desert castle Qasr al-Mschatta, which was implemented as a building measure on a scale of 1: 5 and analyzed with regard to the craftsmen involved, counts as the most extensive graphic work of Grönwald.

Greatly scaled-down representation of the documentation of the architectural ornamentation of the gate facade of the Qasr al-Mschatta on a scale of 1: 5 by Holger Grönwald (2012) as well as a structured analysis of different and related work surfaces on the basis of tool marks and stylistic differences by the early Islamic craftsmen (2013).

family

Holger Grönwald lives and works in Dresden. He is married to Daniela Kratz-Grönwald, they have a daughter.

activities

According to the primary university degree and doctorate, Grönwald is mainly active in medieval archeology. Coming from the preservation of historical monuments and arrested, he works as a prehistoric historian across epochs in different fields of excavation and research. Following on from the second major in Classical Archeology , an expansion of international fields of work opened up across disciplinary boundaries. Often the result was to link archaeological documentation as well as building surveys and research with monument preservation issues and let them lead to scientific work.

Memberships

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2015 - prehistoric and historical building, construction phase and landscape reconstructions for "Witnesses of the Past - News from State Archeology" and for the themed gardens at the Federal Garden Show in Brandenburg ad Havel
  • 2015 - Fund and poster presentation for the excavation project Cucagna in the exhibition "Fortini antichi erano all´intorno di Cividale - Archeologia e castelli nel Friuli north-orientale" in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cividale
  • 2009 - Poster presentation “Excavations in Cucagna. Medieval archeology on the castle and in its surroundings ... " to the conference" Castles in medieval Breisgau "
  • 2007-ongoing - poster exhibition on the excavation and research results at Cucagna Castle for the 25th Anniversario of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione del Castello di Chucco-Zucco in Faedis / Italy
  • 2004 - Poster illustrations for an exhibition project of the degree course Museum Studies / (F) HTW Berlin for the conference of the German Museums Association
  • 2003 - Poster on the history of research as part of the conference "The Beginnings of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology as an Academic Subject (1890-1930) in a European Comparison"
  • 2003 - "Indy, Lara and Hercule - how the media shape the image of the archaeologist" , preliminary work on the history of research and display cases
  • 2002 - “Hare hunting - an Easter walk. A research trip through Easter " , exhibition project of the Musaik eVi G.
  • 2000–2002 - “From Egypt to Prussia - History, Discovery, Fascination of the Pyramids” , exhibition panels on the history and typology of the pyramids with isometric views and reconstructions
  • 1999 - "Cairo - Crisis of a Metropolis" , exhibition boards for the French expedition in Egypt
  • 2000 - panels on the exhibition focus on Choukoutien and on the history of the chair for the HUB show
  • 1999 - panels on the history of the chair, Bronze Age funerals and Slavic castles for the HUB show
  • 1997/98 - "Archeology in Northern Brandenburg" , find drawings and reconstructions
  • 1992 - “Now I'm saying something! - I think? ” , Painting by Atelier Adele Sell; `Dresser´ of the HUB

Fonts (selection)

  • From the Bronze Age to the Modern Age - the center of Schwedt / Oder, district of Uckermark, as an archive of the settlement and city history. In: Publications on Brandenburg State Archeology, Vol. 47 2013 (2016), pp. 265–284. ISBN 978-3-910011-76-2 .
  • with Roberto Raccanello and Katharina von Stietencron: Il castello di Cucagna (Faedis). Ricerca, restauro, didattica e valorizzazione. In: Fabio Pagano (ed.), Fortini antichi erano all'intorno di Cividale - Archeologia e castelli nel Friuli north-orientale , Cividale 2015, pp. 105–119, 180. ISBN 978-88-6803-105-3 .
  • Archeology and history of the high and late medieval country development in Friuli - role and development of Cucagna Castle and its equipment in northeastern Italy , dissertation Freiburg 2014 ( digitized ; summary ).
  • South of the Alps - A look at the medieval development of the country in Friuli / Northeast Italy . In: Jan Klápšte / Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer / Jan Hasil (eds.), Tradition-Redesign-Innovation. Transformation processes in the high Middle Ages , in: PRÆHISTORICA XXXI / 2, Acta instituti archæologici universitatis carolinae pragensis , Prague 2014, pp. 269–290. ISBN 978-80-2462-282-8 .
  • The individual find in detail: the medieval image of the pantheon and its icon in the mirror of pilgrim signs. In: European Pilgrimage Studies , Prague / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-36-5302-638-2 , pp. 275-320.
  • Old iron - iron fists and other finds from the medieval castle of Cucagna. In: Acta Militaria Mediaevalia VIII, Kraków - Rzeszów - Sanok 2012, pp. 127–176. ISSN 1895-4103.
  • The inferior iron fist. Status-relevant metal finds from the medieval castle of Cucagna. In: Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 38 2010, pp. 161–206. ISBN 978-3-7749-3727-7 .
  • Medieval Rome - imagination and reality. The inhabited city and the pantheon as a religious center. In: Seeing Rome and dying… Perspectives on the Eternal City , Erfurt 2011, pp. 29–38. ISBN 978-3-86678-563-2 .
  • Practical medieval and modern archeology. The investigations in the Franciscan monastery Gransee and new views of the old monastery. In: Between fjords and steppe. Commemorative publication for Johan Callmer on his 65th birthday. International Archeology - Studia honoraria 31. Ed. By Felix Biermann, Gerson H. Jeute, Ruth Struwe and Claudia Theune-Vogt, Rahden / Westf. 2010, pp. 461-476. ISBN 978-38-9646-550-4 .
  • Eickstedt - new excavation results as a contribution to the illustration of the high medieval eastern settlement and its reception using the example of a manor in the Uckermark. In: Aedificatio terrae. Contributions to the environmental and settlement archeology of Central Europe. Festschrift for Eike Gringmuth-Dallmer on his 65th birthday. International Archeology - Studia honoraria 26. Ed. By Gerson H. Jeute, Jens Schneeweiß and Claudia Theune-Vogt, Rahden / Westf. 2007, pp. 137-146. ISBN 978-38-9646-426-2 .

literature

  • Achim Leube : Holger Grönwald, b. 1974 . In: ders .: Prehistory between the Empire and reunified Germany. 100 years of prehistory and early history at the Berlin University Unter den Linden . Habelt, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7749-3629-4 , p. 226.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For information about the school cf. their homepage Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 2, 2016 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xn--gs-frnberg-weimar-52b.de
  2. ↑ Under the guidance of Roland Altwein and Thomas Queck, Holger Grönwald took part in the medieval city center research in the Andreasviertel of Erfurt . The processing was done by Wolfgang Timpel.
  3. ↑ The activities in Friuli for the Istituto per la Ricostruzione del Castello di Chucco-Zucco [1] resulted in a long-term collaboration that lasted over a quarter of a century.
  4. ↑ For information on the painting school cf. their homepage [2] .
  5. ↑ The basis were nature, material and anatomy studies with Klaus Bose and courses on architecture and perspective representations with Andreas Kästner.
  6. ↑ See on this Holger Grönwald, Gerson H. Jeute: Archeology I - The teaching collection for prehistory and early history. In: Theater of nature and art - Theatrum naturae et artis vol., Berlin 2000, pp. 52–53, ISBN 978-3-8948-73-554 and Holger Grönwald, Gerson H. Jeute, Raiko Krauss: The study collection of the chair for prehistory and early history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt Vol. 6, 3/2001, pp. 258–267 as well as further information on the collection and whereabouts [3] [4] .
  7. ↑ The instructions given by the graphic artist Rudolf Grapentin , employed by the DFG project as an excavation draftsman , had a lasting impact on the implementation and coloring of the field drawings.
  8. ↑ See Holger Grönwald / Tietze: The excavations in Bubastis / Zagazig and two new furnace findings from Egypt . In: Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift 39, 1998, pp. 335–352 and Holger Grönwald: Two new furnace findings from Bubastis / Zagazig . In: Tell Basta X (Potsdam 1998) 105–123. In addition, he participated in the exhibition projects "From Egypt to Prussia - History, Discovery, Fascination of the Pyramids" (2000 Branitz near Cottbus; 2001 Neu-Augustusburg Castle in Weißenfels; 2001 Cologne; 2002 Hamburg) and "Cairo - Crisis of a Metropolis" ( Potsdam 1999).
  9. ↑ See Holger Grönwald, Gerson H. Jeute, Raiko Krauss: From the diary of an ethno-archaeological excursion through the eastern Rhodope Mountains. In: Ethnogrisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift 41, 2000, pp. 29–63.
  10. ↑ For more information cf. the institute homepage [5] .
  11. ↑ The work is available in several volumes on the server of the Freiburg University Library. [6]
  12. ↑ For the project description cf. the corresponding homepage [7]
  13. ↑ On the Yousef Jameel digitization project cf. its homepage [8] .
  14. ↑ An extensive ceramic complex from the Cottbus-Alvensleben cemetery was used for the research project “Rulership and Gender Difference in the 1st Millennium BC. BC - The transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in the Cottbus / Niederlausitz region ”by S. Rieckhoff / A. Gramsch redrawn.
  15. ↑ See the folding plans in the appendix to the two volumes Qasr al-Mschatta. An early Islamic palace in Jordan and Berlin , in: Berlin Contributions to Building Research and Monument Preservation 16 hrg. by J. Cramer, Berlin / Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0296-6 .
  16. ↑ Museologist in Berlin. Daniela Kratz Diploma thesis Greeks in Görlitz 1916-1919 - Studies on acoustic recordings in the sound archive of the Humboldt University in Berlin [9] received the first award for diploma theses of the Tiburtius Prize of the Free University of Berlin in 2006 [10] .
  17. ↑ See Fabio Pagano (ed.): Fortini antichi erano all´intorno di Cividale - Archeologia e castelli nel Friuli north-orientale , Cividale 2015. ISBN 978-88-6803-105-3 .
  18. ↑ See Holger Grönwald: Excavations on Cucagna. Medieval archeology in and around the castle. Results and future of a teaching excavation. In: Castles in Breisgau. Aspects of castle and rule in a supra-regional comparison , Freiburg i. Br./Bad Langensalza 2012, pp. 331–335. ISBN 978-3-7995-7368-9 .
  19. ↑ See Holger Grönwald / Gerson H. Jeute, Gerson: The beginnings of prehistoric and early historical archeology as an academic subject (1890-1930) in a European comparison. Conference report. In: EAZ, Ethnogr.-Archäol. Z. 44th vol., No. 1, Berlin 2003, pp. 99-108. ISSN 0012-7477.
  20. ↑ Cf. Christian Tietze (ed.): The pyramid. History - Discovery - Fascination , Weimar / Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-00-004535-X .
personal data
SURNAME Grönwald, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian, medieval archaeologist, classical archaeologist and scientific draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar