Markus Gschwind

Markus Gschwind (* 1968 ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and coordinator for the archaeological world heritage at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

Career

Markus Gschwind studied Provincial Roman Archeology, Ancient History and Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Munich and Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , England, and graduated in 1995 with a master's degree . Gschwind participated in the excavations at the Roman fort Eining and received his doctorate on this in Munich under Michael Mackensen in 1999.

From 2001 to 2007 he was a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in the Damascus branch . Markus Gschwind became known to a wider audience through the television episode Roms Limes im Osten , which was broadcast for the first time in February 2004 and is part of the archaeological series Schliemann's Heirs running on ZDF . Together with Walter Trillmich (Berlin), Gschwind began the research project Between Severan Expansion and Sasanian Threat while still in Damascus . The Qreiye / Ayyash fort and the Roman military organization on the central Euphrates , which was supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation from 2004 to 2006 . In spring 2008 he was entrusted with the inventory of the Roman Museum Multerer in Grabenstätt . From 2008 he also began his habilitation at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich on the subject: From Zeugma to Dura-Europos: The central Euphrates region in times of Roman expansion and Sasanian threat . From April 2008 to May 2010 he received a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The work supervised by Michael Mackensen was not yet completed in 2017. In the autumn of 2007 to 2010, Gschwind was able to work as a research assistant at the DAI in Damascus, doing field research at the Raphaneae legionary camp in Western Syria. From July 2010 to May 2011 he was responsible for the scientific supervision of the redesign of the outdoor area at the Roman Eining Fort. In autumn 2011 and 2012 he continued as DAI project manager alongside Haytham Hasan from the Syrian antiquity directorate on research at the Raphaneae legionary camp (research reports from the DAI 2014) and the Qreiye / Ayyash fort (research reports from the DAI 2015) for the DAI. From January 2013 he worked as a research assistant in the Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Munich for the project Italische Terra Sigillata from Iuvavum / Salzburg .

In April 2016 Gschwind was as Speaker appointed coordinator for the Archaeological World Heritage at the Bavarian State Conservation Office in Munich. Since February 1, 2017, he has been working in this role from the newly created Weissenburg office.

In 2008 he was elected a corresponding member of the DAI.

Fonts (selection)

• with Claus-Michael Hüssen : Development and shaping of the borders of the Roman Empire: Research in the Middle East and in the northwestern provinces . In: Ortwin Dally , Friederike Fless , Rudolf Haensch , Felix Pirson , Susanne Sievers (eds.): Political spaces in premodern societies. Design - perception - function. International conference of the DAI and the DFG Cluster of Excellence TOPOI from 18.-22. November 2009 in Berlin . (=  People - Cultures - Traditions. Studies from the research clusters of the German Archaeological Institute 6), Leidorf, Rahden 2012, ISBN 3-86757-386-7 , pp. 161–178.
• with Haytham Hasan, Andreas Grüner , W. Hübner: Raphaneae. Report on the 2005 and 2006 Survey . In: Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 2, 2009, pp. 234–289.
• with Haytham Hasan: The Roman fort Qreiye-ʿAyyāš, Province of Deir ez-Zor, Syria. Results of the Syrian-German cooperation project . In: Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 1, 2008, pp. 316–334.
• Abusina. The Roman auxiliary fort Eining on the Danube from the 1st to the 5th century AD (=  Munich contributions to prehistory and early history 53), Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-10755-9 (= dissertation)
• To the urban area of ​​Abila Lysaniae: The repair of a Roman state road and an early imperial peak sanctuary in southern Antilebanon . In: Damszener Mitteilungen 14, 2004 (2006) pp. 41–63.
• Reflex bow stiffeners and slingshots from Iciniacum / Theilenhofen, Gunzenhausen, Mediana / Gnotzheim and Ruffenhofen. For arming Raetian auxiliary units in the middle imperial period. In: Contributions to Archeology in Middle Franconia , Volume 5, Faustus, Büchenbach 1999, p. 157 ff.
• Harness fittings from the second half of the 3rd century from Abusina / Eining . In: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 49, 1998, pp. 112-138.
• Bronze caster at the Raetian Limes. To supply auxiliary units of the Middle Imperial period with military equipment . In: Germania 75, 1997, pp. 607-638.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Munich
• Castle made of mud bricks (Roms Limes in the east, ZDF)
• DAI project legionary camp Raphaneae