Louis Daniel Nebelsick

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Louis Daniel Nebelsick (born December 12, 1957 in Berlin ) is an American prehistorian and university professor with a specialist focus on the recent prehistory of Central Europe.

Life and academic career

Nebelsick was born the son of the theologian and science historian Harold Nebelsick (1925–1989) and his wife Melissa Koehler. He grew up in New York , between 1962 and 1968 in Beirut and finally in Louisville (KY) and attended Atherton High School there until 1971 .

In 1975 Nebelsick began his studies at the University of Göttingen , received a Master of Arts in archeology from the University of Edinburgh and a Dr. phil. in Prehistoric Archeology in 1994 at the Free University of Berlin with an investigation on the subject of " The Elder Iron Age burial ground of Loretto in Burgenland. A contribution to the change in burial customs and the spectrum of gifts during the Urnfield and Hallstatt Period on the north-eastern edge of the Alps" .

From 1985 to 1987 he was an assistant at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin , from 1988 to 1992 he worked at the German Historical Museum and dealt with the identification of war-damaged exhibits from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin as well as the design and production the exhibition " Treasures from the Rubble" . Between 1995 and 1996 Nebelsick was the scientific coordinator of the DFG project on the edition of the Bronze and Iron Age cemetery of Niederkaina (Saxony) at the State Office for Archeology in Saxony . From 1996 to 1997 he was again assistant at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin and from 1999 to 2001 project manager of the Niederkaina project at the State Office for Archeology of Saxony in Dresden. From 2001 to 2007 Louis Nebelsick headed the exhibition management department there .

Louis Nebelsick has been a professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw since 2007 . He is also employed at the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology in Halle. As part of this employment he examined the late Bronze Age castle wall of Kemberg .

He is married to the prehistorian Carola Metzner-Nebelsick , who works in Munich, and has one child.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hermann Born: A magnificent bronze helmet from the Hallstatt period . Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-9802754-0-X .
  • with Werner Coblenz : The prehistoric grave field of Niederkaina near Bautzen. Volume 1 . Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8062-1232-5 .
  • with Werner Coblenz: The prehistoric grave field of Niederkaina near Bautzen. Volume 2 . Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8062-1323-2 .
  • with Ernst Lauermann and Alexandrine Eibner: Hallstatt culture in eastern Austria . Sankt Pölten 1997, ISBN 3-85326-053-5 .

Web links

  • Entry in the database of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV Louis Nebelsick, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw - Academia.edu. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  2. CV dr hab. Louis D. Nebelsick, prof. nzw. FM | Instytut Archeologii UKSW. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  3. Construction and destruction - news on the oldest fortified ramparts in Central Europe, dated to the exact year . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. July 18, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.