Mathias Hensch

Mathias Hensch (born December 18, 1967 in Celle ) is a German medieval archaeologist .

Live and act

Henschleben studied with Walter Sage and Ingolf Ericsson Archeology of the Middle Ages and modern times, in Arthur Berger and Björn-Uwe Abel pre- and early history as well as Gerd Zimmermann and Bernd Schneidmüller story focusing Medieval History at the University of Bamberg and medieval archeology at Else Roesdahl at Aarhus University in Denmark. The Master of Arts he received in 1996. From 1992 to 2001 he headed the excavations at the early and high medieval center of power Sulzbach ( Schloss Sulzbach ) in the Upper Palatinate and was with his work on this issue at Ericsson and Schneidmüller at the University of Bamberg in 2003 his doctorate .

Hensch has been working as an old town advisor and archaeologist for the city of Amberg since the beginning of 2020 .

His research and work focuses on the history of settlements, churches and rulers as well as the early mining history of the Upper Palatinate.

Hensch wrote numerous publications and research papers on medieval archeology and history of the Upper Palatinate.

Publications (selection)

• Archaeological finds and findings from the early days of the city of Uelzen. Leihdorf Verlag, Raden 1997, ISBN 978-3-89646-451-4
• Sulzbach Castle in the Upper Palatinate. Archaeological-historical research on the development of a rulership center from the 8th to 14th centuries in Northern Bavaria . 3 vols. Büchenbach 2005, ISBN 978-3-933474-30-8
• The lost Hussenturm. Historical-archaeological considerations on a remarkable building in Sulzbach Castle / Upper Palatinate. Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-933474-59-9
• The castle of the Lords of Thurndorf. Archaeological search for traces in an almost forgotten place of high medieval rulership . Verlag Eckard Bodner, Pressath 2017, ISBN 978-3-939247-75-3
• Ore - fire - iron. A short history of the early mining industry in the central Upper Palatinate . Culturcon Medienverlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-944068-81-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Mathias Hensch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Mathias Hensch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mathias Hensch's publications at Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Joachim Gebhardt: Whole city history turned inside out. In: Onetz - Upper Palatinate Media. May 28, 2004, accessed March 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Zeune : Mathias Hensch, Sulzbach Castle in the Upper Palatinate. Archaeological-historical research for the development of a dominion center of the 8th-14th centuries Century in Northern Bavaria . In: Burgen und Schlösser - Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation . tape 47 , no. 4 , 2006, ISSN  2567-3041 , p. 248–249 , doi : 10.11588 / bus.2006.4.49240 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed on March 13, 2020]).
3. ^ Association of State Archaeologists, Communal Archeology, Addresses of the Communal Archaeological Preservation in Bavaria . ( landesarchaeologen.de [accessed on March 13, 2020]).
4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Martin Gruber: Archeology: Medieval citizen hospital found in Amberg . September 20, 2016 ( br.de [accessed March 13, 2020]).