Martin Boss (archaeologist)

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Martin Boss (born May 28, 1959 in Pforzheim ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Martin Boss laid in 1978 graduated from high school at the Reuchlin-Gymnasium of his native city, and began to study classical archeology, Prehistory and Early History and the Classical Philology / Latin first at the University of Wuerzburg in Erika Simon and then at the University of Bern in Hans Jucker . In 1987 he did his doctorate under Simon in Würzburg, the subject of the dissertation was laconic lead votive offerings . He then went into business for himself with a drawing office that specialized in archaeological drawing and surveying. He took part in the excavations in Cerveteri under the direction of Mauro Cristofani and in Satricum under the direction of Conrad M. Stibbes . Since 1991, Boss has been an academic senior counselor and curator of the collection of antiquities at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . In this position, among other things, he accompanied the collection as a virtual museum on the Internet.

Fonts (selection)

  • Laconic votive offerings made of lead . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88479-779-4 (AERIA book series, volume 1).
  • with Ulla Kreilinger and Peter Kranz (eds.): Antikensammlung Erlangen. Selection catalog . Palm and Enke, Erlangen-Jena 2002, ISBN 3-7896-0655-3 (Writings from the Erlangen Collection of Antiquities, Volume 1).
  • with Larysa Hofmann: The coins of the Byzantine Empire in the University Library Erlangen-Nuremberg . Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library , Erlangen 2007, ISBN 978-3-930357-83-3 (Catalog of the coins in the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library, Volume 10 / Writings of the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library, Volume 45).
  • with Bernhard Steinmann, Robert Nawracala a. a .: In the center of power. The Roman Forum in a Model , Institute for Classical Archeology and Collection of Antiquities, Erlangen 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034009-3 .

Web links

  • Martin Boss on the website of the Antikensammlung Erlangen
  • Martin Boss in the FAU Current Research Information System
personal data
SURNAME Boss, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim