Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm

Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm , b. Schulze (born April 7, 1944 in Duisburg-Hamborn , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German medieval archaeologist .

Life

The daughter of the merchants Mechtilde and Rudolf Schulze attended the episcopal abbey high school in Duisburg-Hamborn. She studied the subjects of Prehistory and Early History , Art History and Medieval History at the Universities of Münster , Mainz and Bochum , where she did her doctorate with Gerhard Mildenberger at the end of 1971 with a study on crossbow brooches from the late Imperial period . As an employee of the DFG , she worked on the medieval ceramics as well as the settlement structure of the deserted area of ​​Wülfingen , city of Forchtenberg , for Günter P. Fehring from 1972 at the Landesdenkmalamt in Stuttgart , and from 1974 for Kurt Böhner the late Roman and early medieval burial fields of Gondorf , district of Mayen-Koblenz am Römisch -Germanic Central Museum in Mainz (RGZM).

After being appointed conservator at the RGZM in 1980, she worked in the editorial department for two years and then became an assistant in the Early Middle Ages department. From 1983 to 2004 she published all new acquisitions and restoration projects of this department in the annual reports of the RGZM. In 1985 she married Rolf Dörrlamm, editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz . From 1990 to 2009 Schulze-Dörrlamm was senior curator in the Early Middle Ages department of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, which was under the management of Konrad Weidemann . She played a key role in the preparation of the special exhibition on “The Empire of the Salians 1024-1125” in Speyer (1992) and in the reconstruction of the display collection in the Early Middle Ages department, which was opened in 2000. Since her retirement in 2009, she has continued her research as a freelance research assistant at the RGZM. She has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1986 .

Research priorities

She saw her main task in researching the medieval cultural history of Europe through the clarification of unresolved, sometimes controversial questions of archeology and art history as well as through the discovery or re-evaluation of important monuments and finds. So she identified z. B. in Mainz the back of a royal throne from the late 8th century and the Boniface tomb from the middle 9th century, tracked down a Hungarian warrior's grave in Aspres-lès-Corps , Hautes-Alpes , and discovered a royal sword of the 10th century Century, which was called the "Sword of St. Mauritius" in the " Hallesche Heiltum ". She used the excellent working conditions offered by the RGZM as a research institute for prehistory and early history with its large library, collections and workshops to work on a wide range of topics from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages from Central and Southern Europe. She was particularly interested in the symbols of rule of the German kings and emperors ( holy lance , imperial crown , imperial sword ), jewelry and other goods from the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the traces of the Hungarian invasions in the first half of the 10th century and the archaeological monuments of the Carolingian Mainz.

Publications (selection)

• The late imperial crossbow brooches with a fixed needle holder (group Almgren VI, 2). Bonn 1977.
• The imperial crown of Conrad II (1024-1039). An archaeological investigation into the age and origin of the imperial crown. (Monographs RGZM 23). Sigmaringen 1991.
• The Mainz treasure of the Empress Agnes from the middle 11th century. New studies on the so-called "Gisela jewelry" (monographs RGZM 24). Sigmaringen 1991.
• The imperial sword. A symbol of rule of the Salier Heinrich IV. And the Guelph Otto IV. (Monographs RGZM 32). Sigmaringen 1995.
• Swords of the 10th century as symbols of the Ottonian rule. To the forerunners of the imperial sword and its imitation forms. In: Jahrb. RGZM 59, 2012, pp. 609–651.
• The Holy Lance in Vienna. The early history of the Carolingian-Ottonian emblem from an archaeological point of view. In: Jahrb. RGZM 58, 2011, pp. 707-742.
• Byzantine belt buckles and belt fittings in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum. 2 volumes (catalogs RGZM 30, 1–2). Mainz 2009.
• Traces of the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century. In: Falko Daim (Ed.): Heroes' grave in no man's land. (Exhibition catalog Mainz). Mainz 2006. pp. 43-62.
• The stone monument of Hrabanus Maurus on the reliquary grave of St. Boniface († 754) in Mainz. In: Jahrb. RGZM 51, 2004, pp. 282–347.
• The Mainz royal throne from the second half of the 8th century. In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 34, 2004, pp. 571-587.

Web links

• Website at the RGZM
• Publications by Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm at academia.edu