Kurt Genser

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Kurt Genser (born April 1, 1944 in St. Johann im Pongau ) is an Austrian provincial Roman archaeologist .

Kurt Genser attended high school in Salzburg from 1954 to 1964. From 1964 to 1978 he worked for the Austrian Federal Railways . From 1970 he studied ancient history and archeology at the University of Salzburg and received his doctorate on November 27, 1975. In 1978 Genser began his work as a university assistant at the Institute for Ancient History and Archeology at the University of Salzburg, in 1982 he completed his habilitation and in 1983 he became a university lecturer for Roman history with a special focus on provincial research. From 1997 until his retirement he worked at the Institute for Ancient History, Archeology and Mycenaeology at the University of Salzburg as an associate professor.

The focus of Kurt Genser's academic work was on ancient military and provincial history, about which he has published a number of studies, some of them in PALLASCH, Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte, and in other publications. As part of his teaching activities, he led excursions in Germany and abroad to North Africa and the Middle East. In 2001 he founded the Diomedes series of the Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the University of Salzburg (Issue 1, published in Salzburg 2001).

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of the Roman Limes on the Danube in Austria. Dissertation, Salzburg 1975 (unprinted).
  • The Austrian Danube Limes in Roman times. A research report. Habilitation thesis University of Salzburg 1982 (unprinted).
  • The Austrian Danube Limes in Roman times. A research report (= The Roman Limes in Austria. Volume 33). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0783-8 .
  • The Danube Limes in Austria (= publications of the Limes Museum Aalen. Volume 44). Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1990.
  • Origin and development of the middle Danube Limes (= Linzer Archäologische Forschungen. Special issue 25). Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz, Linz 2001, ISBN 3-85484-573-1 .

literature

  • Fritz Fellner, Doris Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, p. 139.

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personal data
SURNAME Genser, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Provincial Roman Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann im Pongau