Markus Scholz (archaeologist)

Markus Scholz (* 1970 ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist . He is the curator of the Roman Age Department at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz and holds a chair for archeology and history of the Roman provinces at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Life

From 1991 to 1995, Scholz majored in Provincial Roman Archeology as well as Prehistory and Early History and Ancient History at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel . In 1995 he completed his studies with a master's thesis on "Graffiti on Roman ceramics from Nida-Heddernheim". Subsequently, in 1996, he worked as excavation manager in the Roman camp village ( Vicus ) of Riegel am Kaiserstuhl . In 1998 he received a research grant from the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. The scholarship dealt with the topic "The quarry inscriptions of the Brohl valley (Eifel) - building material for the Lower Germanic army". In the same year he began to design the special exhibition “Older than thought: Roman settlement sites in the High Rhine Valley”, which he accompanied in 1999 in Rheinfelden . In 2001 he gave at the University of Freiburg his dissertation "The pottery of the Limes fort Kapersburg " and was in the tray Provincial Roman Archeology doctorate .

In the same year Scholz was employed by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg and from 2001 to 2003 he led the excavations in the Heidenheim fort. He also oversaw other excavations in the Heidenheim district . In the course of investigations into this fort , he was responsible for the conception and implementation of a special exhibition on the Roman garrison in Heidenheim. After a short time as a freelance epigraphist at the beginning of 2004, he took over excavation management for the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office again. This time in the Limes Fort Aalen and again in Heidenheim. Still 2004 and 2005/2006 he conceived as an exhibition curator , the exhibition "Engraved and deciphered. Small inscriptions as documents of the Roman information society ”in the Limes Museum Aalen and - in collaboration with Marcus Reuter , Martin Kemkes and Bernd Steidl - the exhibition“ Alles Geritzt. Messages from Antiquity ”in the Munich State Archaeological Collection . In 2005 he also worked on the state exhibition "Imperium Romanum" in the archaeological state museum of Baden-Württemberg . From 2004 to 2005 he also worked as a scientific advisor for the expansion of the Limes Museum Aalen into an archaeological park. Here he was particularly concerned with reconstruction measures on the fort area there. From December 2004 to November 2006 he received a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG), which dealt with the evaluation of the research results from the investigations at the Heidenheim fort. For this purpose, he was employed as a research assistant at the University of Freiburg from 2005 to 2006 through a position funded by the DFG .

From December 1, 2006 to March 31, 2010, Scholz worked as a consultant in the Roman Period department at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum and became a curator there from April 2010 . From 2011 he also took on provincial Roman teaching positions at the Universities of Freiburg and Frankfurt . The archaeologist remained active as a curator at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum until 2015 and then took a leave of absence until the end of 2018. In the same year he was at the University of Freiburg habilitation and took over from December 1, 2015, succeeding Hans-Markus von Kaenel Professor of Archeology and History of the Roman provinces at the University of Frankfurt.

Since 2008, Scholz has been a founding member and vice-president of the “Association internationale pour l'étude des inscriptions mineures (Ductus)” with its headquarters at the University of Lausanne , Switzerland .

Fonts (selection)

• Tumbe farmers? On the written form in rural settlements in the Upper Germanic provinces and Raetia . In: Markus Scholz, Marietta Horster (ed.): Reading and writing in the Roman provinces. Written communication in everyday life . Files from the 2nd DUCTUS International Colloquium (= RGZM- Tagungen  26), Mainz 2015, pp. 67–90.
• with Barbara Pferdehirt (Ed.): Citizenship and Crisis - The Constitutio Antoniniana 212 AD and its domestic political consequences . (=  Mosaic stones, research at RGZM 9), Schnell & Steiner, Mainz 2012 ISBN 978-3-7954-2663-7
• Grave buildings of the 1st-3rd centuries Century in the northern border provinces of the Roman Empire . (=  Monographs of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums 103), Mainz 2012, ISBN 3-7954-2722-3
• with Martin Kemkes : The Roman fort Aalen. UNESCO World Heritage (=  Writings of the Limes Museum Aalen 58), Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-8062-2057-3
• The equestrian fort Aquileia / Heidenheim. The results of the excavations 2000-2004 (=  research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg 110), Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 3-8062-2259-2
• with Marcus Reuter : scratched and deciphered. Written documents of the Roman information society (=  writings of the Limes Museum Aalen 57), Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1924-9
• History and ceramics of the Limes Fort Kapersburg. An inventory . In: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 52, 2002/03, Mainz 2006, pp. 9–281. (Dissertation)
• with Marcus Reuter: Everything is scratched. Messages from ancient times . Archaeological State Collection Munich, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-927806-34-X
• Ceramics and the history of Fort Kapersburg - an inventory. In: Saalburg-Jahrbuch 52/53, 2002/2003, pp. 9–282.
• Graffiti on Roman clay pots from Nida-Heddernheim . (=  Writings of the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt 16), Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-7954-2785-1

Web links

• Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz , curriculum vitae and list of publications
• University of Frankfurt , curriculum vitae and list of publications