Klaus Kortüm

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Klaus Kortüm (* 1959 ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Kortüm studied prehistory and early history and provincial Roman archeology in Mainz and Freiburg im Breisgau, and received his doctorate in 1992 in Freiburg under Hans Ulrich Nuber . He works for the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg in the Stuttgart regional council in Esslingen am Neckar .

Kortüm caused a sensation in the professional world with his 1998 publication “On the dating of the Roman military installations in the Upper German-Raetian Limes region” . In this, he made a new dating of the Limes fort by means of a statistical reassessment of the circulation times of all coins found on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes .

Publications

  • Portus - Pforzheim. Studies on archeology and history in Roman times. Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-7403-4 (= dissertation).
  • For dating the Roman military installations in the Upper German-Raetian Limes area . In: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 49, 1998, pp. 5–65.
  • with Johannes Lauber: Walheim I: the fort II and the subsequent settlement. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Kortüm: On the dating of the Roman military installations in the Upper German-Raetian Limes area . In: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 49, 1998, pp. 5–65.