Karl-Heinz Willroth

Karl-Heinz Willroth (born October 30, 1948 in Plön ) is a German prehistorian . His research focus is the Central European Bronze Age .

Career

Willroth studied prehistory from 1975 to 1981 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1981 with the dissertation The hoards of the older Bronze Age in southern Sweden and on the Danish islands . In 1989 he completed his habilitation in Kiel with the text Investigations on the settlement history of fishing rods and swans from the older Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. A study of chronology, chorology and settlement studies .

From 1990 to 1993 he was Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1993 to 2016 he was professor of prehistory at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and director of the seminar there.

Willroth is a member of the DFG- funded Graduate School 1024 "Interdisciplinary Environmental History. Natural Environment and Social Action in Central Europe ”and co-editor of the prehistoric magazine .

Willroth heads the "Settlements of the Bronze Age" project, which has been funded since 2007 as part of the federal and state-sponsored academy program. The project is supervised by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

literature

• Immo Heske , Hans-Jörg Nüsse, Jens Schneeweiß (ed.): "Landscape, Settlement and Settlement". Archaeological Studies in a Northern European Context. Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Willroth on his 65th birthday (= Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history. Vol. 33 = Series of publications by the Lüchow-Dannenberg Local History Working Group. Vol. 20). Wachholtz, Hamburg et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-01533-5 .
• Karl-Heinz Willroth (Hrsg.): Settlements of the older Bronze Age. Contributions to settlement archeology and paleoecology of the second millennium BC in southern Scandinavia, northern Germany and the Netherlands (= studies on the northern European Bronze Age. 1). Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-01581-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl-Heinz Willroth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Willroth's website at the seminar for prehistory at the University of Göttingen
• List of projects submitted by Willroth to the German Research Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see page about the project under [1]
2. ↑ Page about the project in the academy program Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.