Martin Kemkes

Martin Kemkes (born August 11, 1963 in Duisburg ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and scientific director of the Limes Museum in Aalen .

Life

Kemkes majored in Provincial Roman Archeology as well as Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the Universities of Cologne and Freiburg . He concluded his studies with a master’s thesis on bronze chest fittings from a Roman villa rustica in 1989 .

From 1993 he worked at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg and in 1995 switched to the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart as a research assistant . Here he became head of the Department for Provincial Roman Archeology and worked on his dissertation on the Roman Danube Fort Rißtissen , which he completed in 1996 at the University of Freiburg and which was supervised by Hans Ulrich Nuber (1940-2014) and published in 2016. When he took over the scientific management of the Limes Museum Aalen, which has been managed by Ulrich Sauerborn since 1988 , the editorial management of the museum publications also came into Kemke's hands in 1997.

In 2003, the scientific management of the Limes Museum in Aalen was transferred from the Württemberg State Museum to the State Archaeological Museum Baden-Württemberg . Since then, in addition to his work in Aalen, Kemkes has also been head of the Roman Age / Branch Museums department at the State Archaeological Museum in the Rastatt branch . In the “Roman Museums on the Limes” working group of the State Archaeological Museum, which was also founded in 2003, Kemkes was the second chairman from 2004 to 2010 and has been the first chairman of the board since 2010. He is also a member of the German Limes Commission .

In addition to these activities, Kemkes gives university lectures. The archaeologist is on the board of the Society for Archeology in Württemberg and Hohenzollern .

literature

• Vademecum of the historical sciences 1998/1999 . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07253-5 , p. 207 and p. 418.

Fonts (selection)

• Bronze chest fittings from the Roman villa rustica of Eigeltingen-Eckartsbrunn, Constance district . In: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden , 43 (1990), pp. 33-42; also published in: Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg , 16 (1991), pp. 299–387. (= Master's thesis)
• The Roman Danube Fort Rißtissen (=  material booklets for archeology in Baden-Württemberg 101), Theiss, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-2969-1 . (= Dissertation)
• Political propaganda in Traian's time reflected in the coins and historical reliefs . In: Egon Schallmayer (Ed.): Traian in Germanien, Traian im Reich. Report of the Third Saalburg Colloquium . (=  Saalburg writings 5) Saalburg Museum, Bad Homburg v. d. H. 1999, ISBN 3-931267-04-0 , pp. 127-136.
• The early Roman fort and the vicus of Mengen-Ennetach . In: Archeology in the area around the Heuneburg. New excavations and finds on the upper Danube between Mengen and Riedlingen . Lectures from the 2nd Ennetach working discussion on March 18, 1999 and booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Heuneburg Museum, May 21 to October 31, 1999 (=  archaeological information from Baden_Württemberg 40). State Office for Monument Preservation, ISBN 3927714380 , pp. 77–90.
• The Limes. Rome's border with the barbarians . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-3401-7 .
• The Limes as a mediation task . In: Andreas Thiel (Ed.): The Limes as UNESCO World Heritage (=  contributions to the Limes World Heritage 1). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2118-3 , pp. 54-67.
• with Claudia Sarge and Carsten Amrhein: Faces of Power - Images of Emperors in Rome and on the Limes . Book accompanying the exhibition in the Limesmuseum Aalen, 2009 (=  The Limes series - Writings of the Limesmuseum Aalen 60), Theiss, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8062-2262-3 .
• with Markus Scholz : The Roman fort Aalen. UNESCO world heritage. Theiss, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2057-5 .