Horst Wolfgang Böhme

Horst Wolfgang Böhme (born May 1, 1940 in Stettin ) is a German archaeologist with a focus on late antiquity / early Middle Ages and castle research .

Life

Böhme studied prehistory , Roman provincial archeology , history and folklore in Kiel , Mainz and Munich . In 1968 he received his doctorate on Germanic grave finds from the 4th to 5th centuries between the lower Elbe and Loire . In 1970 he became department head at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, then in 1972 assistant, later director of the early medieval department of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum (RGZM) in Mainz.

With the great Salier exhibition in 1991, Böhme entered medieval archeology . The anthologies on rural settlements and castles that were created at that time gave research an important impetus. From 1992 until his retirement in 2005 he was Professor of Early History and Medieval Archeology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Böhme is a member of the German Archaeological Institute , the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Castle Association and the Historical Commission for Hesse .

Publications (selection)

As an author

Monographs

• Germanic grave finds from the 4th to 5th centuries between the lower Elbe and Loire. Studies on Chronology and Population History (= Munich Contributions Pre- and Early History. Vol. 19). 2 volumes. Beck, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-00489-X (At the same time: Munich, University, dissertation, 1969: On the chronology of the grave finds of the 4th / 5th centuries between Elbe and Loire. ).
• Roman civil service careers. Cursus honorum (= small writings on the knowledge of the Roman occupation history of Southwest Germany. 16, ZDB -ID 236356-2 ). Gentner, Stuttgart 1977.

Essays

• On the importance of late Roman military service for the formation of the Bavarian tribes. In: Hermann Dannheimer , Heinz Dopsch (ed.): The Bajuwaren. From Severin to Tassilo 488–788. Prehistoric State Collection, among others, Munich 1988, pp. 23–37, (catalog of the exhibition of the same name).
• Noble graves in the Franconian Empire. Archaeological evidence of the emergence of a ruling class under the Merovingian kings. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz. Vol. 40, 1993, ISSN  0076-2741 , pp. 397-534.
• Continuity and tradition in migration movements in early medieval Europe from 1st to 6th centuries. Century. In: Archaeological Information . Communications on prehistory and early history. Vol. 19, 1996, pp. 89-103.
• Nobility and church among the Alemanni of the Merovingian era. In: Germania . Vol. 74, No. 2, 1996, pp. 477-507.
• Franks and Romanes in the mirror of late Roman grave finds in northern Gaul. In: Dieter Geuenich (Hrsg.): The Franks and the Alemannen up to the “Battle of Zülpich” (496/97) (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volume. 19). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-015826-4 , pp. 31-58.
• Ethnos and religion of the inhabitants of Westphalia. Methodical and historical problems. In: Christoph Stiegemann, Matthias Wemhoff (Ed.): 799 Art and Culture of the Carolingian Period. Charles the Great and Pope Leo III. in Paderborn. Contributions to the catalog of the exhibition Paderborn 1999. von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2590-8 , pp. 237–246.
• Watermills in the early Middle Ages. In: Astrid Böhme (ed.): The Regnersche Mühle in Bretzenheim. Contributions to the history of the watermill (= Bretzenheimer contributions to history. 1, ZDB -ID 2283924-0 ). Association for local history Bretzenheim and Zahlbach, Mainz 1999, pp. 26–55.
• Northern Lower Saxony between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. On the ethnogenesis of the Saxons from an archaeological point of view. In: Problems of coastal research in the southern North Sea area. Vol. 28, 2003, ISSN  0343-7965 , pp. 251-270.

As editor

• Settlements and land expansion during the Salier period. 2 volumes. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-4135-7 ;

1. In the northern landscapes of the empire (= Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Monographien. Vol. 27);
2. In the southern landscapes of the empire (= Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Monographien. Vol. 28).

• Castles of the Salian period. 2 volumes. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-4134-9 ;

1. In the northern landscapes of the empire (= Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Monographien. Vol. 25);
2. In the southern landscapes of the empire (= Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Monographien. Vol. 26).

literature

• Festschrift for Horst Wolfgang Böhme on his 65th birthday. 2 parts. 2005;
  • Part 1: Claus Dobiat (Ed.): Reliquiae Gentium (= International Archeology. Studia honoraria. Bd. 23 = Publication of the Prehistoric Seminar Marburg. 14). Leidorf, Rahden 2005, ISBN 3-89646-423-X ;
  • Part 2: Interdisciplinary studies on European castle research (= publications of the German Castle Association. Series A: Research. Vol. 9). German Castle Association, Braubach 2005, ISBN 3-927558-24-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Wolfgang Böhme in the catalog of the German National Library