Mathilde Grünewald

Mathilde Grünewald

Mathilde Grünewald (born November 13, 1947 in Göttingen ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Mathilde Grünewald attended the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Göttingen until 1966 . After graduating from high school, she first studied Classical Archeology at the University of Göttingen , then moved to the University of Vienna , which had just established a chair for Provincial Roman Archeology . She received her doctorate in 1975 with a thesis on "Late antique mansions in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire and their social background".

From 1969 to 1980 she worked as a freelancer for the Limes Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences during the excavations in the Carnuntum legion camp . From 1980 to 2012 she was director of the Museum of the City of Worms in the Andreasstift . In Worms and its surroundings led them through between 1980 and 1990 numerous excavations.

Since 2013 she has been working for the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim as a consultant for provincial Roman archeology, where she curated the exhibition “A Touch of Rome”. Most recently she worked on the excavation in the Roman villa rustica of Oftersheim near Schwetzingen . The main house was cut, a cellar and two heated rooms are proven. Around AD 260 the building was demolished and literally deconstructed. After that, the owner had a large post structure built, which was probably not completed. Two wall systems were able to be reconstructed from the numerous fragments of excellent ancient wall paintings.

For local communities in Rheinhessen such as Hochborn , the highest village on the Kloppberg plateau, and the neighboring Hangen-Weisheim on hillside terraces , she created local chronicles. For this purpose, all documents, from archaeological finds to the village archives, parish registers, registry office files and other sources were evaluated.

In 2018 she presented the four Kurmainzer court regulations in two articles. The order of 1613 was previously unknown.

Another focus of her scientific work is cooking from antiquity to early modern times. Mathilde Grünewald researched food preparation as well as historical eating and drinking habits. She has set up and cooked selected historical recipes for today's kitchen. These recipes have been published in various publications, including their Nibelungen cookbook, which is dedicated to the Middle Ages, as well as in the volume Schmausende Domherren or How Politics is on the Table - Mainzer Menus 1545 and 1546 .

Mathilde Grünewald lives in Worms. She was married to the photographer Klaus Baranenko , whose pictures have found their way into many of her publications.

Research priorities

• The Roman Limes in Austria
• Roman and early medieval grave finds from Worms and Rheinhessen
• Historical cuisine
• Local chronicles

Publications (selection)

• The Romans in Worms , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0479-9 .
• Between the Varus Battle and the Great Migration. The Roman Age grave finds from Worms and Rheinhessen in the Museum of the City of Worms , with Erwin Hahn (anthropology), 2 volumes, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2006, ISBN 978-3-89870-325-3 .
• Nibelungenkochbuch , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2006, ISBN 978-3-89870-281-2 .
• Story in pictures. The Museum of the City of Worms in the Andreasstift , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-399-4 .
• Archeology between Donnersberg and Worms: Excursions in an old cultural land , Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2042-0 .
• with U. Koch / A. Wieczorek: Between Roman times and Charlemagne. The early medieval grave finds from Worms and Rheinhessen in the Museum of the City of Worms in the Andreasstift , 3 volumes, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-568-4 .
• Under the pavement of Worms. Archeology in the City , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-754-1 .
• Feasting canons or how politics comes to the table. Mainz menus 1545 and 1546 narrated and served with photos by Klaus Baranenko , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-776-3 .
• A Roman house with wall paintings in Oftersheim , Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3298-0 .
• Archeology in the vicinity of Worms Cathedral . Home Yearbook for the City of Worms 2020, 95–98. ISBN 978-3-947884-20-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Mathilde Grünewald in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mathilde Grünewald's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Museum director in Worms is quietly retiring ( memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wormser Zeitung from December 19, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2014. 
2. ↑ A touch of Rome. Treasures from the Mannheim collections. Information text from the publisher. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
3. ^ History and stories of Hochborn in Rheinhessen. Chronicle of Hochborn, until 1971 Blödesheim . Edited by the local community Hochborn, 2019, 380 p. Hangen-Weisheim. A village in Rheinhessen and its history (s) . 436 pages, Verlag Sandré audio & books, Hettenleidelheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-96686-001-7 .
4. ^ 1. The Kurmainzer court orders of 1505, 1532 and 1583 . In: From Hammaburg to Herimundesheim. Festschrift for Ursula Koch . Edited by A. Wieczorek and K. Wirth. Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter special publication 11, publ. Der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen 85, 2018, pp. 291–319. - 2. The Mainz court ordinances of 1613 . In: Bibliothecarius Martinianus. Spiritual Science Studies in the context of the Martinus Library in Mainz. Ceremony for Helmut Hinkel on his 75th birthday . Edited by W. Wilhelmy. New Jb. Fd Diocese of Mainz, contributions z. Contemporary and cultural history, Mainz-Würzburg 2018, pp. 153–212.
5. ↑ Review of Mathilde Grünewald's book Schmausende Domherren or how politics comes to the table in: sehepunkte 13, 2013, No. 3, accessed on October 25, 2014.