Marcus Trier

Marcus Trier, 2013

Marcus Trier (* 1962 in Cologne ) is a German early historian and has been director of the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne since September 1, 2012 .

Life

Career

Marcus Trier passed his Abitur at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cologne and studied from 1981 to 1989 at the Universities of Bonn and Munich Pre- and Protohistory , Classical Archeology and Historical Geography . Finally, he was in 1989 in Bonn at Volker brewer with the dissertation The early medieval settlement of the middle and lower Lech Valley due to archaeological sources for (phil Dr.) Doctor philosophiae doctorate . Trier completed his community service at the end of the 1980s in the Niederzier branch of the Rhenish Office for the Preservation of Ground Monuments. After brief activities as an archaeological employee, he worked for an excavation company from 1992 until he was employed at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne in 2000 . Since January 2008 he has acted as its deputy director, before he took over the management of the house on a provisional basis after Hansgerd Hellenkemper's retirement in 2010 and since 2012 also formally. Trier temporarily took over the supervision of the archaeological zone after Sven Schütte was withdrawn from project management on April 10, 2013 .

Trier is the chairman of the non-profit Foundation Archeology in Cologne , established in 1997 , which provides long-term support for archaeological research and science from the foundation's income, such as funding archaeological research projects, publications, grants (especially for young scientists).

family

Trier's grandmother was the Cologne sculpture restorer Grete Brabender (1896–1995), his uncle the painter Hann Trier (1915–1999), and his father the art historian Eduard Trier (1920–2009). Trier's brother and sister work in the arts. Marcus Trier is married to the art historian Anne Gantführer-Trier; he has a daughter with her.

Web links

Commons : Marcus Trier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage as a lecturer at the University of Cologne; with font directory.
• Article "Römisch-Germanisches Museum:" Stories that the soil has to offer "" by Verena Schüller, Kölnische Rundschau from June 13, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] Main committee makes important personnel decisions - City of Cologne, press release of August 6, 2012.
2. ↑ Press release of the City of Cologne from June 6, 2012.
3. ↑ Announcement ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by WDR 3 ( Westdeutscher Rundfunk ) in the cultural news of April 11, 2013, accessed on April 11, 2013.