Martin Luik

Martin Luik (* 1961 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German prehistorian and archaeologist . Luik has been a private lecturer and substitute professor at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2004 .

Life

Luik attended the Georgii-Gymnasium in Esslingen and studied from 1980 Provincial Roman Archeology, Prehistory and Early History, Ancient History and Classical Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1987 he passed the master's examination in Roman provincial archeology at Munich University.

In 1987 Luik became a research assistant for the construction of the Roman Museum and Archaeological Park in Köngen . A year later he wrote a guide to the Roman Park together with Fridolin Reutti. 1991 doctorate he at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Provincial Roman Archeology Dr. phil. His dissertation and a short version of his master's thesis were published in 1996 as the first volume of the Koengen-Grinario. Excavations of Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Wuerttemberg in Konrad Theiss Verlag published. Until 1993 he was a research assistant at the Limes Museum Aalen .

From 1993 to 1997 Luik received a research scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute . In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Klagenfurt . The habilitation thesis was published in 2002 with the title The finds from the Roman camps around Numantia in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum as volume 31 of the series catalogs of prehistoric antiquities . At the University of Klagenfurt he held a university assistant position at the Institute for History, Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies, and various teaching positions at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Trier and Munich.

In 2004 Luik followed the call to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich after a post- doctoral qualification . Since 2004 he has worked there as a private lecturer , deputy professor and research assistant at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology. His main research interests include the cultural history of the Roman Republic and the Middle Roman Empire, as well as archaeological sources on Roman economic history. He is the author , editor , editor and reviewer of numerous specialist publications. Some of his works appeared in the Archäologische Korrespondenzblatt and in the magazine Antike Welt .

In 2012 he received the Daniel Pfisterer Prize from the Köngen History and Culture Association for his services . Martin Luik has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2018 .

Publications (selection)

• The Roman Park in Köngen. with Fridolin Reutti, Theiss, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-8062-0558-9 .
• Grinario, Civitas Sumelocennensis. Archaeological plan of the Roman king. as editor, Land Survey Office, Stuttgart 1989.
• Archaeological finds from Roman times and the Middle Ages. An exhibition by the Heilbronn Municipal Museums, August 20 to October 31, 1993. Heilbronn Municipal Museums, Heilbronn 1993.
• Roman site monuments.
  • Part 1: The Roman manors of Gemmrigheim and Kirchheim am Neckar (Ludwigsburg district). with Dieter Müller, Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-8062-1193-1 .
  • Part 2: The Roman manors of Esslingen-Berkheim and Wolfschlugen (Esslingen district). with Dieter Müller, Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8062-1474-1 .
• Köngen-Grinario. Excavations by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office.
  • Part 1: Topography, directory of sites, selected groups of finds. Master's thesis and dissertation , Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-8062-1246-4 .
  • Part 2: Historical-archaeological evaluation. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-8062-1921-0 .
• The finds from the Roman camps around Numantia in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Habilitation thesis , Habelt, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-88467-071-2 .
• Renieblas, Lager V. The results of the archaeological-topographical surveys from 1997 to 2001. as co-author, Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-8053-3686-4 .
• The difficult way to world power. Rome's conquest of the Iberian Peninsula 218–19 BC Chr. As co-author, Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3471-6 .
• 100 years of the Köngen Castle Tower. A reconstruction and its history. as editor, State Office for Monument Preservation, Esslingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-942227-09-4 .

literature

• A stroke of luck for the municipality of Köngen. The Daniel Pfisterer Prize goes to the archaeologist Martin Luik. Esslinger Zeitung , Esslingen, January 24th, 2012. ( digitized )
• Ceramic bowls for Roman soldiers. Martin Luik speaks in Köngen about the settlement of Grinario. Esslinger Zeitung , Esslingen, October 29, 2017 ( digitized )

Web links

• Martin Luik in the German biography
• Works by and about Martin Luik  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Martin Luik in Kalliope
• Publications by Martin Luik in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• PD. Dr. Martin Luik at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich