Manfred Oppermann (archaeologist)

Manfred Oppermann (born July 14, 1941 in Halberstadt ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Oppermann studied classical archeology at the University of Sofia from 1965 to 1968 , where he received his doctorate in 1971. In 1978 he received his habilitation thesis at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with a thesis on the development of society and the visual arts in the Roman provinces of Thracia and Moesia inferior from the 1st century to the 2nd half of the 3rd century . He was appointed Professor of Classical Archeology in 1983 and then worked in the Oriental and Classical Studies section of the University of Halle. From 1994 until his retirement at the end of June 2006, Oppermann was director of the University's Archaeological Museum , and he was succeeded by Stefan Lehmann in the 2007 summer semester . In May 2007 Oppermann was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ovidius University of Constan unda and in July 2008 he was elected a foreign member by the general assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.

Oppermann presented works on Greek and Roman relief art, including the Roman imperial reliefs. He stood out in particular through his work on the art and culture of the Balkan Peninsula, for example with his important synthesis on the history of the West Pontic Poleis. Oppermann took part in international and interdisciplinary research projects, particularly with the exploration of Thrace : together with Zlatozara Goceva , he presented several volumes of the series Corpus Cultus Equitis Thracii and devoted an intensive study to the cult of the Thracian rider .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Published in the series: Corpus Cultus Equitis Thracii. Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l 'Empire romain (CCET):

• with Zlatozara Gočeva: Monumenta orae Ponti Euxini Bulgariae, Volume 1, Leiden 1979.
• with Z. Goceva: Monumenta inter Danubium et Haemum reperta, Volume 2, Leiden 1981–1984.

• Tarnovo - Tsar City of the Balkans ( Akzent-Series , Volume 52), Leipzig 1981.
• Thracians between the Carpathian Arc and Aegean Sea, Leipzig 1984.
• Plovdiv - ancient three-hill town ( Akzent series , Volume 71), Leipzig 1984.
• Roman emperor reliefs, Leipzig 1985.
• From Medusa to the birth of Athena, Leipzig 1990.
• The western Pontic Poleis in pre-Roman times and their indigenous environment (writings of the Center for Archeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region, Volume 2), Langenweißbach 2004.
• Thracians, Greeks and Romans on the west coast of the Black Sea, Mainz 2007.
• The Thracian Horseman of the Eastern Balkans in the field of tension between Graecitas, Romanitas and local traditions (writings of the Center for Archeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region, Volume 6), Langenweißbach 2007.
• Early Christianity on the west coast of the Black Sea and in the adjacent inland: historical and archaeological evidence (writings of the Center for Archeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region, Volume 19), Langenweißbach 2010.

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 469.
• Manfred Oppermann on his 65th birthday: Sven Conrad u. a. (Ed.), Pontos Euxeinos. Contributions to the archeology and history of the ancient Black Sea and Balkan region (publications of the Center for Archeology and Cultural History of the Black Sea Region, Volume 10), Langenweißbach 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Oppermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manfred Oppermann at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg
• Writings by Manfred Oppermann in Propylaeum-DOK