Jörn Staecker

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Jörn Staecker (born April 27, 1961 in Buxtehude ; † December 15, 2018 in Tübingen ) was a German medieval archaeologist and professor of archeology of the Middle Ages at the University of Tübingen .

Life

Jörn Staecker studied Prehistory and Early History at the University of Kiel from 1983 to 1990 with the minor subjects Medieval and Modern History and Classical Archeology . He then spent the next four years researching in Uppsala , Lund and St. Petersburg as a scholarship holder of the Birkastiftung and as a doctoral scholarship holder of the Svenska institutet and the Vitterhetsakademien, before completing his doctorate in Kiel in 1995. From 1994 to 1999 he took over the professorship for medieval archeology at the University of Lund , from 1998 as the elected deputy director of the institute. From 2000 to 2004 he worked as a researcher in Lund and for the Riksantikvarieämbetet in Stockholm . In 2001 he completed his habilitation in Lund. From 2005 to 2008 he held the professorship for Historical Archeology at the Uppsala universitet Campus Gotland at the Institute for Archeology and Osteology, of which he was elected director from 2006. In 2008 he accepted the position at the University of Tübingen as the successor to Barbara Scholkmann .

Staecker was married and the father of three children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Cross and crucifix pendants from the Viking Age in Old Denmark . Written term paper to obtain a Magister Artium (MA) from the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Kiel 1990 (unprinted).
  • Rex regum et dominus dominorum. The Viking Age cross and crucifix pendants as an expression of the mission in old Denmark and Sweden . Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm 1999 (= Lund Studies in medieval Archeology Volume 23. ISSN 0283-6874), (also Kiel University, dissertation 1995).
  • Dialogue with death - the high and late medieval burial custom and burial place in southern Scandinavia (= Tübingen research on historical archeology ). (Printing in preparation).
Editorships
  • The European Frontier - Clashes and Compromises in the Middle Ages . Symposium Lund 2000. ( Lund Studies in Medieval Archeology Volume 33). Gotland University College Reports. Center for Baltic Studies, CCC papers 7. Lund 2004.
  • with Carola Jäggi : Archeology of the Reformation. Studies on the effects of religious change on material culture . Symposium Erlangen 2004 (= work on church history, volume 104). De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019513-5
  • The Reception of Medieval Europe in the Baltic Sea Region . Visby Symposiet. Acta Visbyensia XII. Visby 2009.
  • with Anke K. Scholz, Martin Bartelheim, Roland Hardenberg: ResourceCultures. Sociocultural Dynamics and the Use of Resources - Theories, Methods, Perspectives (= Resource Cultures Volume 5). Tübingen 2017 ( full text ).
  • with Matthias Toplak: The Vikings. Discovery and Conqueror , Propylaea, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-549-07648-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated December 24, 2018: Obituary · Prof. Jörn Staecker: The unadjusted border conqueror , accessed on December 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Staecker, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medieval archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Buxtehude
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 2018
Place of death Tübingen